{"id":124569,"date":"2021-07-03T18:24:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/nasa-might-use-magnetic-shield-to-grow-life-sustaining-atmosphere-on-mars"},"modified":"2021-07-03T18:24:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T01:24:17","slug":"nasa-might-use-magnetic-shield-to-grow-life-sustaining-atmosphere-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/nasa-might-use-magnetic-shield-to-grow-life-sustaining-atmosphere-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA Might Use Magnetic Shield to Grow Life-Sustaining Atmosphere on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-might-use-magnetic-shield-to-grow-life-sustaining-atmosphere-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dipole shield could shield #Mars<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Martian atmosphere is a decimated shred of what it once was, thanks to the fact that <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/7857-nasa-confirms-solar-winds-stripped-mars-of-its-atmosphere\">a disappearing magnetic field allowed solar winds to pummel the red planet\u2019s skies<\/a> over millions of years. So naturally, one solution to making <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/mars\">Mars<\/a> more habitable may be to resurrect its magnetosphere \u2014 and it\u2019s a crazy idea <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/nasa\">NASA<\/a> scientists are actually looking into.<\/p>\n<p>At Wednesday\u2019s <a class href=\"http:\/\/www.hou.usra.edu\/meetings\/V2050\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop<\/a> at the NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., NASA\u2019s Planetary Science Division Director Jim Green spoke about how this magnetic shield would work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be feasible that we can get up to these higher field strengths that are necessary to provide that shielding,\u201d Green said. \u201cWe need to be able then to also modify that direction of the magnetic field so that it always pushes the solar wind away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dipole shield could shield #Mars The Martian atmosphere is a decimated shred of what it once was, thanks to the fact that a disappearing magnetic field allowed solar winds to pummel the red planet\u2019s skies over millions of years. So naturally, one solution to making Mars more habitable may be to resurrect its magnetosphere \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}