{"id":35147,"date":"2017-03-07T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/nasa-wants-to-launch-a-giant-magnetic-field-to-make-mars-habitable"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:51","slug":"nasa-wants-to-launch-a-giant-magnetic-field-to-make-mars-habitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/nasa-wants-to-launch-a-giant-magnetic-field-to-make-mars-habitable","title":{"rendered":"NASA Wants to Launch a Giant Magnetic Field to Make Mars Habitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-wants-to-launch-a-giant-magnetic-field-to-make-mars-habitable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA scientists have proposed a bold plan that could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/live-updates-nasa-is-announcing-what-happened-to-mars-atmosphere-right-now\">give Mars its atmosphere back<\/a> and make the Red Planet habitable for future generations of human colonists.<\/p>\n<p>By launching a giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-detected-a-crack-in-earth-s-magnetic-shield\">magnetic shield<\/a> into space to protect Mars from solar winds, the space agency says we could restore the Red Planet\u2019s atmosphere, and terraform the Martian environment so that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-nasa-finds-evidence-of-liquid-water-flowing-on-the-surface-of-mars\/\">liquid water flows on the surface once again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mars may seem like a cold, arid wasteland these days, but the Red Planet is thought to have once had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-mission-reveals-speed-of-solar-wind-stripping-martian-atmosphere\">thick atmosphere<\/a> that could have maintained deep oceans filled with liquid water, and a warmer, potentially habitable climate.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-wants-to-launch-a-giant-magnetic-shield-to-make-mars-habitable\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-wants-to-launch-a-giant-mag...-habitable<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA scientists have proposed a bold plan that could give Mars its atmosphere back and make the Red Planet habitable for future generations of human colonists. By launching a giant magnetic shield into space to protect Mars from solar winds, the space agency says we could restore the Red Planet\u2019s atmosphere, and terraform the Martian [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,38,1507,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-engineering","category-environmental","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35147","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58468,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35147\/revisions\/58468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}