Saturday, August 6, 2011

Mars Colonization Update

In our long term project of seeking to colonize Mars we have so far not found help from universities.  We have continued to work on the project nonetheless.  We have identified a source of nitrogen for the atmosphere from a location previously thought to actually need nitrogen for colonizaiton itself: Venus.  Venus has almost 100 times as much mass in its atmosphere as Earth, of which roughly 3.5% is nitrogen.  This means that there is actually too much nitrogen on Venus.  This nitrogen will be used on Mars, as well as oxygen from the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to create stable climates on both planets.  There will be no need to send a mission to potentially the outer solar system in search of enough nitrogen.  The problem is extracting the excess mass from Venus, which will be a project for the next phase of this effort. 

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