{"id":81934,"date":"2018-08-21T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/rethinking-the-mars-terraforming-debate"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:22:23","slug":"rethinking-the-mars-terraforming-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/rethinking-the-mars-terraforming-debate","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the Mars terraforming debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rethinking-the-mars-terraforming-debate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In late July, Bruce Jakosky and Christopher Edwards published a paper titled \u201cInventory of CO<sub>2<\/sub> available for terraforming Mars,\u201d which was sponsored by NASA. The paper analyzed the amount of volatiles, primarily carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>), on or in Mars currently, and concluded reasonably that there are not enough volatiles available on Mars to terraform it sufficiently for a person to not need a pressure suit. Jakosky is the principal investigator for MAVEN, the NASA Mars orbiter studying the planet\u2019s atmosphere. He and his co-author wrote what is technically an accurate paper, in spite of what was an existing mild controversy over the amount of some volatiles in the soil and regolith of Mars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3551\/1\">http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3551\/1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late July, Bruce Jakosky and Christopher Edwards published a paper titled \u201cInventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars,\u201d which was sponsored by NASA. The paper analyzed the amount of volatiles, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), on or in Mars currently, and concluded reasonably that there are not enough volatiles available on Mars to terraform it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1507,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-environmental","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81934","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=81934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}