What about the future? Oxygen is plentiful on all rocky planets – trapped in rocks. Could we find a way to release it to make a planet (eg Mars) habitable for humans?
2007-05-01 12:54:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Mars is not habitatable for humans....if it was we'd be there already.
2007-05-01 13:02:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You assume that oxygen is plentiful on all rocky planets. However, we have only been to small parts of our moon, Mars and Venus (and possibly Mercury) to do actual analysis of the rock formations. It would be like probe landing on Hawaii and determing that bassalt and lava were the dominant forms of Eath rocks and basing an assumption on the chemical properties of those two rocks.
As far as getting the oxygen out of the rocks that do have it, we have not found a viable way to do that yet.
2007-05-01 21:42:59 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin k 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In order to do what you propose requires energy. But, for the sake of argument, let us say you can and did. The amount of of oxygen needed to supply a planet the size of Mars is great, plus the fact that Mars has no magnetic field to deflect cosmic rays from the sun means that you would have to constantly be resupplying the oxygen. Nice try, tho.
2007-05-01 21:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes because if there is air in the rocks then there has to be some air in the planet and we can extract air from the rocks.
2007-05-01 20:06:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be done but not with the current state of the art. There are plans to do this when the moon is invaded.
2007-05-01 20:05:45 · answer #5 · answered by jim m 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope
2007-05-01 20:02:12 · answer #6 · answered by wolfwagon2002 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no.
2007-05-01 19:59:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋