Tue. 12/20 - Wind Power for Human Habitats on Mars?
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 1:03.4 | home. In 1977, a dust storm on Mars provided NASA's Viking 2 with enough data for scientists to determine |
| 1:15.8 | that the wind speed on the red planet was too weak to ever be harnessed as a viable source of |
| 1:22.4 | energy. The atmosphere on Mars is thin, very thin. It's about 1% the density of Earths. And that low |
| 1:31.1 | atmospheric density reduces the force associated with winds. But a new study published yesterday in |
| 1:37.3 | the journal Nature Astronomy says that's not the whole story. Lead author and postdoctoral |
| 1:42.6 | fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center, |
| 1:44.7 | Victoria Hartwick, says it's more complicated when you consider the planet overall, in different |
| 1:51.0 | places, around different land features, and at different times of the Martian year. When all of that |
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