Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by dylan604 on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:03PM
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Couldn't we just build a MegaMaid and suck the atmosphere out? If we're going to go sci-fi, it seem easier to hoover it out than capture an asteroid and nick the atmosphere just right.
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Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by BuyMyBitcoins on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:35PM
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Then, move the MegaMaid into an orbit around Mars and go from suck to blow. Venus has too much atmosphere, Mars has too little. Win Win.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by moron4hire on Monday May 12, 2025 @11:04PM
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It wouldn't do Mars any good. Lacking a magnetosphere, any atmosphere you add will get stripped away by the Sun.
The atmosphere will be stripped away over a time period of millions of years though.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by irrational on Monday May 12, 2025 @11:19PM
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I’ve read that a large asteroid could be positioned at a particular Mars L point and it would protect the planets atmosphere from being stripped by the sun.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by andrewflnr on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @12:53AM
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I've read something similar, but I believe it has to be an asteroid with a magnetic field, whether permanent or electromagnet.
The estimate I heard is it would take 100,000 years for the atmosphere to be stripped off. That’s a long long time.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
by shepardrtc on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:16PM
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Something like a solar powered space elevator that just blows atmosphere into the sun
That would require a lot of energy to ensure the gasses escape Venus' gravitational pull, which would in turn effectively be a rocket. So then we'd be adjusting to ensure we don't mess with Venus' orbit too much.
We can avoid orbital drift through the magic of building two of them.
Venus outweighs its atmosphere by about 10,000 times. This is actually less than I thought -- for comparison Earth outweighs its atmosphere by over 1,000,000 times, which is still far less than I would have guessed.
Venus's escape velocity is less than 1/3rd of its orbital velocity. According to google, Venus's orbit, despite being very circular, causes its velocity to vary by a KM/s from aphelion to perihelion.
So I believe you could send all of Venus's atmosphere off permanently into space at the cost of about 1/30,000th of Venus's orbital velocity, meaning you could very slightly circularize its orbit further.