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Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise by dylan604 on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:03PM (#43967883)
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.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise by BuyMyBitcoins on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:35PM (#43968095)
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 (#43969348)
It wouldn't do Mars any good. Lacking a magnetosphere, any atmosphere you add will get stripped away by the Sun.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise by adrianN on Monday May 12, 2025 @11:58PM (#43969543)
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 (#43969404)
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 (#43969713)
I've read something similar, but I believe it has to be an asteroid with a magnetic field, whether permanent or electromagnet.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise by hinkley on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @12:50AM (#43969703)
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 (#43967968)
Something like a solar powered space elevator that just blows atmosphere into the sun
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise by bdamm on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:26PM (#43968023)
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.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise by p1mrx on Monday May 12, 2025 @07:08PM (#43968296)
We can avoid orbital drift through the magic of building two of them.
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise by gcanyon on Monday May 12, 2025 @09:30PM (#43968966)
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.

Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise by hinkley on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @12:51AM (#43969706)
Spinning it up would be handy.