Mars remains in humanity/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u2019s crosshairs as a promising planet to settle due to its great potential in becoming habitable someday./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/n
With this in mind, UCF Planetary Scientist Ramses Ramirez, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University analyzed Martian climate models to study the possibility of using Mars-based nanoparticles to warm the atmosphere to accommodate life on Mars./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/n
The research, published this week in the journal Science Advances, found that it may be feasible to fabricate tiny reflective nanorods from iron and aluminum found in the Martian soil and launch them into the atmosphere. There the nanorods would concentrate sunlight onto the surface, triggering a greenhouse effect that produces surface temperatures that may be warm enough for humans to live and work there./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/n The researchers say they hope it encourages other scientists to consider further exploring the viability of their method./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/n /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u201cIt turns out from the calculations that our team has done, that the random scattering of these particles will cause a strong enough greenhouse effect to warm large swaths of the Martian surface,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u201d Ramirez says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/n The use of nanoparticles engineered from the Martian soil greatly reduces terraforming costs and eliminates the need to deliver many resources to Mars, Ramirez says. Previous proposed methods considered releasing carbon dioxide /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u2013 which is very limited on Mars. Others suggested producing chlorofluorocarbons /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u2013 which are difficult to maintain in high amounts /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u2013 proving to be a considerable challenge, he says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/n /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u201cThere have been attempts in the past to try to warm Mars using greenhouse gases, but they require many resources to be brought from Earth and there/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u2019s the issue of cost,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u201d Ramirez says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u201cWe were trying to find a solution that was more cost effective and also made it possible to live off the land per se using Martian materials./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/142600/n