24 September 2021
New reactor could turn Mars' atmosphere into rocket fuel
... and have enhanced mechanical resilience compared with the metal variety. As well as helping to mitigate climate change, CO2 could be recycled into ethylene. Called the world's most important chemical, ethylene is used in the manufacture of plastics...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
...brought above the freezing point by the addition of about three bar of CO2. (By comparison, Earth’s surface pressure is 1.013 bar, and Mars’s... planet An additional problem with the CO2 greenhouse is that CO2 partial pressures above ~30 times Earth’s...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
...theory sounded, there was still a stumbling block as far as CO2 was concerned. Carbon dioxide is one of the main building blocks... simulating a reaction complex indeed. But eventually, they got CO2 to bend in the right way. "In general, excited ...
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
... signs of methane,” says Olsen. Discovering an unforeseen CO2 signature that has never before been observed in a laboratory... of ozone’s role in the planet’s climate. “Ozone and CO2 are important in Mars’ atmosphere. By not accounting for these gases...
15 August 2016
Was early Mars warmed by cirrus cloud cover?
... the valleys. Others argue that dense H2O and CO2 atmospheres could have warmed the Red Planet in its...but Ramirez and Kasting found that with thicker clouds, higher atmospheric CO2 pressures, and smaller particle sizes, the efficiency of the models...
01 April 2020
Biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products for use on Mars or Earth
... layer that is made up of about 96 percent carbon dioxide (CO2) - a level that is toxic to humans if breathed in ... hopefully go some way to offsetting an ever-increasing level of CO2. The biohybrid is still being tweaked to increase the efficiency of...
