What is happening to Mars' Polar Ice Caps?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- Are the ice caps on Mars melting? What the Mars' ice caps made up of? And what is happening to them?
In this video, we discuss Mars polar ice caps. We begin by talking about what they are made up of, primarily being dry ice and water ice. Something unique about Mars is that Carbon dioxide can exist as both a gas and a solid on Mars, so we look at the science behind why that is. Then, we consider what is happening to the ice caps, and see that they sublimate (go from solid to gas) as the polar region heats up. So during the winter, the ice caps grow in size, and as spring and summer begin, the dry ice sublimates and leaves behind mostly water ice. This cycle plays a large role in the climate of Mars because a majority of the Martian atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide.
This process is very fascinating and tells us why the ice caps on Mars appear to change so much throughout a Martian year.
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Tell us more about seasons on mars!
Interesting. Yes, please do a video about the seasons. I knew Mars has seasons, but not that they are more complex than those we have on Earth.
Love your videos, you have a real nack for picking topics not typically discussed. I always learn something from your videos. Awesome job!
Harrison Wheeler Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos!
Look at a picture of Mars from an encyclopedia from the 1950s. (You have to find an encyclopedia because 1950's Mars pictures are scrubbed from the Internet).
You will immediately notice the ice covers 30% of the planet each pole!!!! Now the ice only covers a tiny portion.
Which means Mars has warmed quite a bit since the 1950s.
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You need to find an old 1950-1960s encyclopedia. That will have a picture of Mars from the 1950's.
Was the tinfoil from 1950-60 also 30% thicker? I figure it was, and you got some healthy stacks of it.
it was an interesting video! A mars season video would be very nice!
You explained why Mars' ice caps are melting seasonally - good to know. I would be more interested in it's ice caps long term development, i.e. is there also climate change on Mars? And if so - why?
How would we stay connected? Will the old Mars reconnaissance orbiter provide basic text and in special cases a picture? Or will Starlink provide normal internet access with horrible ping times? (2×Distance in lightminutes --> ping in minutes)? Will quantum mechanics help us out there? Would be interesting which possibilities we have.
Could've talked about water ice, which melts at a much higher temperature, and how much water is detectable based in surface temperature, not only CO2
Love your vids!
Yes would you to analyze where the best possible Mars landing would be relative to utilizing the H2O- and in doing so would it be then when there is less of the frozen CO2?? Thanks and keep up the excellent videos!!
Very..very interesting. Even for a child.
Fascinating. What a great dinosis of events on Mars.
I would love a video about why instead of looking for life at ice caps we are still just looking at craters for the 'evidence" of life where water once ran? They might say that temperatures drop too low but I wager that if done with rovers like curiosity during the Spring/Summer season in Mars we would have a better chance to see water and maybe access where life can/could have exist/existed.
Is it possible that Mars may become warmer due to Greenhouse effect?
Yes please make a video on seasons of Mars. PLEASE...
What I'd like to see is pictures of the Martian poles, taken in the same season, over a period of 50 years or so. I'm sure such images exist, but damn if I can find them anywhere.
Really interesting. Could have mentioned about Elon Musk's thought of nuking the poles to release the carbon dioxide to hopefully cause a green house effect which can raise the avg. surface temperature on mars. A fun topic to discuss I guess.
S.Anirudh Srivathsavan I’m curious as to how much this would raise the global temperature of Mars, of if the planet would stabilize back to its current state. Very interesting topic for sure!
@@MartianWolf I believe the temperature won't be sufficient to terraformating mars. But the existence of a thicker atmosphere can protect the future astronauts there from radiation by a small degree.
Musk could send some of his cars, solar panels and a few failX rockets to Mars and warm it up.
Only arrogant entitled patriarchy obsessed men would be so self righteous blowhard to even think of blowing up anything on any planet anywhere including this one.
@@rachkate76
So explosives are immoral?
What about mining and tunnel building, is it immoral to use explosives for rock braking?
So, if we could get some sort of vegetation that took in CO2, and released oxygen, and put that vegetation in a crater on Mars, preferable even in a crater within a crater within yet another crater, (the lowest crater being eventually where water could be stored, the middle crater being where humans and other species could exist, and the upper crater being the 'atmosphere' for that crater biosphere), we could start terra forming Mars.
And then also, by bombarding the lowest crater with protons, (and/or possibly even hydrogen itself), possibly create water on Mars. Pool party on Mars. Who's in?
One major problems with people living on Mars is that the soil has a lot of perchlorates which are toxic.
@@thudthud5423 Well, here is the thing though. If we as Earthlings do not get off of this Earth and out of this solar system, and out of this galaxy too if my current analysis is correct, then we all die one day from something and go extinct with no conscious entity being left to care.
(Copy and pastes from my files):
Consider the following:
* There are 3 basic options for life itself, which reduce down to 2, which reduce down to only 1:
a. We truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity.
b. We die trying to truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity.
c. We die not trying to truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity.
* 3 reduced down to 2:
a. We truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity.
b. We don't. And note, two out of the three options above, we die.
* 2 reduced down to 1:
a. We truly have some sort of actual conscious existence throughout all of future eternity.
b. We truly don't have any conscious existence throughout all of future eternity.
(And note, these two appear to be mutually exclusive. Only one way would be really true.)
And then ask yourself the following questions:
1. Ask yourself: How exactly do galaxies form? The current narrative is that matter, via gravity, attracts other matter. The electric universe model also includes universal plasma currents.
2. Ask yourself: How exactly do galaxies become spiral shaped in a cause and effect state of existence? At least one way would be orbital velocity of matter with at least gravity acting upon that matter, would cause a spiral shaped effect. The electric universe model also includes energy input into the galaxy, which spiral towards the galactic center, which then gets thrust out from the center, at about 90 degrees from the input.
3. Ask yourself: What does that mean for a solar system that exists in a spiral shaped galaxy? Most probably that solar system would be getting pulled toward the galactic gravitational center.
4. Ask yourself: What does that mean for species that exist on a planet, that exists in a solar system, that exists in a spiral shaped galaxy, in an apparent cause and effect state of existence? Most probably that if those species don't get off of that planet, and out of that solar system, and probably out of that galaxy too, (if it's even actually possible to do for various reasons), then they are all going to die one day from something and go extinct with probably no conscious entities left from that planet to care that they even ever existed at all in the first place, much less whatever they did and or didn't do with their time of existence.
5. Ask yourself: For those who might make it out of this galaxy, (here again, assuming it could actually be done for various reasons), where to go to next, how long to get there, how to safely land, and then, what's next? Hopefully they didn't land in another spiral shaped galaxy or a galaxy that would become spiral shaped one day, otherwise, they would have to galaxy hop through the universe to stay alive, otherwise, they still die one day from something with no conscious entities being left from the original planet to care they even ever existed at all in the first place, much less that they made it out of their own galaxy. They failed to consciously survive throughout all of future eternity.
6. Ask yourself: What exactly matters throughout all of future eternity and to whom does it exactly and eternally matter to?
Either at least one species truly consciously survives throughout all of future eternity somehow, someway, somewhere, in some state of existence, even if only by a continuous succession of ever evolving species, for life itself to have continued meaning and purpose to, OR none do and life itself is all ultimately meaningless in the grandest scheme of things.
Our true destiny currently appears to be:
1. We are ALL going to die one day from something.
2. We are ALL going to forget everything we ever knew and experienced.
3. We are ALL going to be forgotten one day in future eternity as if we never ever existed at all in the first place.
Currently:
Nature is our greatest ally in so far as Nature gives us life and a place to live it, AND Nature is also our greatest enemy that is going to take it all away. (OSICA)
* (Note: This includes the rich, powerful, and those who believe in the right to life and the sanctity of human life. God does not actually exist and Nature is not biased other than as Nature. Nature does what Nature does in a cause and effect kind of way. Truth is still truth and reality is still reality, regardless of whatever we believe that reality to be. And denying future reality will not make future reality any less real in a cause and effect state of existence.)
** Thud Thud.
The average temp on Mars is -80F. Don't know of any vegetation that could handle that.
@@marcusjones4410 See the previous post to "@Thud Thud". Either at least one species continues to consciously survive throughout all of future eternity, OR none do. One day there would not be any conscious entities, or possibly not even any life itself at all, left to care and life itself would all be ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things. It would not matter that any of us existed at all in the first place, much less how any of us existed while we existed. Life itself would just be what it is while it is, but one day, life itself would be no more. Or at least what the currently analysis seems to indicate.
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I learned a lot from this video; thanks 👍
Cool video. Found your videos on mining ice/water and generating fuel. Great videos.
Out of Curiosity. Why haven't We sent a Rover to Mars Ice Caps? Seems like a Great Place to Explore. 😎
I think the machines won't work cause it's a lot colder than our poles.
Love your intro music
Thanks for the info and not too technical. I'm writing a scifi short story that takes place on Mars. Do you know what's the temperature in August at the North Pole? And is there any CO2 left as part of the ice cap in August?
Does it (dry) snows on Mars? It would be amazing to watch snowing on Mars..✨
shadanion From what I’ve been able to find, it does snow on Mars, but the ice crystals are very small and usually sublimate before hitting the surface. And the dry ice snow occurs during the long nights where the surface is hidden in shadow. But most of the dry ice builds up as frost rather than a snowfall
@@MartianWolf thanks for answering the question.
Damn, came back to this after a few months and production quality really has improved a lot.
One thing you could further improve is to move the light a little bit to the right or left so that it doesn't reflect in the middle of your iris.
Mars season video!!!
Great explanation on Mars poles..., thankyou for information...
very informative.keep it up please for more update
You forgot to answer the question about if those caps are melting! Obviously this is a hot topic here on Earth so why don't you comment on some average ice caps size trend on Mars if there is any??
Wow this is cool
Great explanation of the polar ice caps. I was just looking at them with my 8 inch dobsonian tonight. I think it's the closest Mars gets to Earth for the next 30 Years.
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I know carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas so the more of it gets released the temperature goes up. Does it cool completely down or does mars warm a little more each year or does the temperature to back normal over time
Much of the previous Mars research went into ascertaining whether or not H2O existed, or does exist, on the planet. To learn that it currently exists in the form of at least some water ice at the poles puts a lot into perspective. Could quantities be sufficient to feasibly be harvested & used by future astronauts, or would the logistics be too overwhelming?
I think Elon was a little optimistic for humans on Mars in 2022, but there are some major rehearsals for such an event that can be tried on Earth.
My New Year cookie said, "Complicated problems can have easy answers, but they are usually wrong."
It seems that the advantages of a pioneer outstation in the Mars N-polar region has had little discussion. (A complicated problem, but here is the easy answer.)
Wikipedia informs that this polar ice cap is 1000 km in diameter with an average depth of 2km. and the ice ridges rise up to 3km above the Martian ground level.
A boring machine could tunnel into these ridges of ice and create large amphitheatres, that would contain our earthly atmospheric pressure and give protection from radiation.
The low heat conductivity of air would enable Glasshouses of plastic to retain a warm atmosphere for sustainable aquaculture and soil production. The snow-like slurry produced by the boring machine could be pumped to a dam in the dry valleys where a thick layer of ice would protect it from Martian dust.
What could possibly go wrong???.
Why is Mars polar caps melting ...Mars inner core is ice instead of liquid iron,meaning Mars is Earth when the earths core freezes no magnetic feilds or substainable seasons ....
I might need the total information of mars season
Would this seasonal melting and freezing result in a seasonal atmospheric pressure fluctuation?
So is there water on mats or does this not count.
There is water but it's frozen
Nice but why does Mars have small Pilar ice caps
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have the ice caps changed size over time, that is over Martian years ?
Great people , great Discovery. N a s a.
Damn all those martians driving SUVs and cooking on gas stoves!
Someone tell the Martians to stop driving their SUVs
Water is inside the ice, sign of former life, maybe fossils inside the caps
Mars is a obvious disaster struck planet , could have collided with a previous planet or something along those lines, something destroyed what it once was , if it collided with a planet before, former Mars life or the other planet’s fossils could be buried within the crust. Ice on the planet shows at one point there had to be life.
Is there some "climate change" happening on Mars? Is the mean temperature is stable in term of decades.
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Could humans terraform Mars????
Why have we not sent a rover to the ice caps?
@2:29 "sourth"
Are he Ice caps on Mars shrinking at a similar rate to that on Earth? And did Mars have an Ice age, again around the same time as the Earth?
CAN NUKE MAKE WATER WITH THAT ?😮
What is holding the carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere of Mars.
can we live on mars
Darn that Earth Climate change has migrated to our neighbor Mars!!! Quick, let Al Gore and AOC know!!!!
Gee I wonder if it could be a solar cycle? Hum....
So that mean colonize mars will be more hard than we think
IF it is 95% co2. I'm thinking global warming ?
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spend all that money for a planet we will never ever live on
wow!
Good thing it's not your money.
It's global warming! Damn C02! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
solar system warning ...... that explains everything.
CO2 atmosphere, but freezing cold? Is theirs good CO2, but ours is bad CO2?......
Just joking.
According to the UN IPCC Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are melting Mars.
Global warming on mars too, i wonder whose polluting there and if the martians are fighting against global warming too.😂
Mars is not a right planet for us to live as Mars doesn't have magnetic field . We could only experiment on it so we can get experience for us to colonize other planets.
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Man this intro music is terrible. Never do that again.
Is it possible that Mars may become warmer due to Greenhouse effect?