{"id":137517,"date":"2022-03-30T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/a-mars-city-will-need-to-overcome-this-tiny-obstacle-to-survive"},"modified":"2022-03-30T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:02:36","slug":"a-mars-city-will-need-to-overcome-this-tiny-obstacle-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/a-mars-city-will-need-to-overcome-this-tiny-obstacle-to-survive","title":{"rendered":"A Mars city will need to overcome this tiny obstacle to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mars-city-will-need-to-overcome-this-tiny-obstacle-to-survive2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, though, new research is helping us understand this strange dusty environment and paving the way for safer Mars missions in the future \u2014 like a crewed landing and possibly even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/spacex-mars-city-codex\">permanent settlement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The problem of dust<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mars\u2019s surface is covered in fine particles of dust. With its smaller size than Earth, it has lower gravity \u2013 around one-third of the gravity here \u2013 and a thinner atmosphere, which is around one percent of the density of Earth\u2019s atmosphere. That means it is easy for winds to form and to pick up those dust particles, blowing them into a dust storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, though, new research is helping us understand this strange dusty environment and paving the way for safer Mars missions in the future \u2014 like a crewed landing and possibly even a permanent settlement. The problem of dust Mars\u2019s surface is covered in fine particles of dust. With its smaller size than Earth, it has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137517","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}