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#3 Re: Life support systems » Optimal air pressures.. - Which is best? More O2 or more pressure? » 2005-04-19 18:12:54

hey . so whats ur theory of bringring oxygen up to mars and getting the co2 off?

#4 Re: Life support systems » I am doing a project and i need help please - Oxygen/Carbon Dioxide » 2005-04-19 17:37:02

hey im doing a project on making a base up on mars and my part of the project is that i have to find out on how to bring air up on mars and getting the poisonus co2 gas out. Im suppose to write a 3-5 page essay on this but i have no clue on what to do sad . So right now i told my teacher that im going to plant alot of trees, so the trees can give us air to breathe in and the trees can also remove the co2. My teacher says well how am i going to plant this? and i replied saying we can use night-soil (our own solid waste) Teacher says that we cant because maybe there are bacterias that can kill the plant. So now i have nothing on how to get Oxygen on mars and Carbon dioxide off.  This essay is due friday and i really need some help and good sources. So far this is my essay



My part of the Mars project is bringing oxygen to mars. Finding out on how to bring oxygen up to mars and how to make the oxygen stay up for a long period of time. The air on mars isn’t breathable and it is mostly carbon dioxide. Mars has 95.32% CO2, 2.7% N2 (nitrogen), and 1.6% Ar (argon), 0.13% O2 (oxygen), 0.07% CO (carbon monoxide), and 0.03% H2O, and that’s a challenge.
    The first thing that I’m going to talk about is on how we will get air on mars. Mars air isn’t breathable and it is mostly carbon dioxide.  We can use the ice on mars to make oxygen; the liquid water can be split into hydrogen and oxygen gas using electricity made by the sunlight’s solar panels.  The oxygen made by this process can be used for the astronauts living on mars. This theory is from a website.
    My theory is that we can bring, tree seeds, some fertilizer, good soil, and small trees up to mars. We can use our own waste to plant the trees, this is possible. In china people use their own waste such as urine and solid human waste to farm their crops. By planting the trees we can have a green room connected to our base and this way we can have air. This is also very good because the trees can suck up all the carbon dioxide. To be exact we can have about 2-3 green rooms up in mars so we can get the more oxygen and get the carbon dioxide sucked up faster.

I am only in 8th grade and this project is worth like 2-3 hundred points

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cuhhriss@yahoo.com <- my email
cuhhriss@hotmail.com <- my msn
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