{"id":3925202,"date":"2026-03-31T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/terraforming-mars-modeling-engineered-aerosols-to-warm-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:02:15","slug":"terraforming-mars-modeling-engineered-aerosols-to-warm-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/terraforming-mars-modeling-engineered-aerosols-to-warm-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Terraforming Mars: Modeling engineered aerosols to warm the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they&#8217;re going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface temperature of -55\u00b0C; temperatures can plunge to -125\u00b0C with dust storms lasting months; its atmosphere is very thin and almost all carbon dioxide; and all the water is frozen and mixed with ice made of CO2. Oh, and solar radiation will be hazardous on Mars&#8217; surface since the planet has no ozone layer to block ultraviolet radiation, especially so during solar flares. Disneyland it is not.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-terraforming-mars-aerosols-planet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they&#8217;re going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface temperature of -55\u00b0C; temperatures can plunge to -125\u00b0C with dust storms lasting months; its atmosphere is very thin and almost all carbon dioxide; and all the water is frozen and mixed with ice [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}