{"id":8117,"date":"2022-01-04T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/terraforming-mars-venus-not-out-of-the-question-retiring-nasa-chief-scientist"},"modified":"2022-01-04T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T11:58:48","slug":"terraforming-mars-venus-not-out-of-the-question-retiring-nasa-chief-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/terraforming-mars-venus-not-out-of-the-question-retiring-nasa-chief-scientist","title":{"rendered":"Terraforming Mars, Venus Not Out of the Question – Retiring NASA Chief Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>While the scientist\u2019s proposal for Mars involves a magnetic shield that would help stop the planet\u2019s atmosphere being stripped by the solar wind, his suggestion regarding Venus involves a \u201cphysical shield that reflects light\u201d, which would cool that world.<\/p>\n

While manned outposts on other planets still remain the premise of bold science fiction, NASA\u2019s retiring chief scientist, James Green, suggested that making Mars habitable may be deceptively straightforward.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Greene brought up the prospects of terraforming Mars at the NASA Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop, arguing that a \u201cmagnetic shield\u201d could protect the Red Planet from high-energy solar particles and prevent the solar wind from stripping the Martian atmosphere, a move that would improve the climate.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Green also observed that the task of terraforming Mars is \u201cdoable\u201d. Greene noted that being able to walk on the planet\u2019s surface without a spacesuit would afford humans \u201cflexibility and mobility\u201d, while increasing the atmospheric pressure and temperature would enable humankind to \u201cbegin the process of growing plants in the soils.\u201d<\/p>\n

He acknowledged, however, out that the \u201cfirst level of terraforming\u201d, which he set at 60 millibars \u2013 \u201cthe Armstrong limit, where your blood doesn\u2019t boil if you walked out on the surface\u201d \u2013 is still \u201ca factor of 10 from where we are now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The retiring scientist also speculated that another planet in our solar system, Venus, could be terraformed as well, with the help of a \u201cphysical shield that reflects light\u201d, which would lower the second planet’s extremely high atmospheric temperature.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Rwanda. While the scientist\u2019s proposal for Mars involves a magnetic shield that would help stop the planet\u2019s atmosphere being stripped by the solar wind, his suggestion regarding Venus involves a \u201cphysical shield that reflects light\u201d, which would cool that world. 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