Methane Discovered on Mars Could Aid Global Warming Problems on Earth

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Methane Discovered on Mars Could Aid Global Warming Problems on Earth

by Shawn Schuster (Subscribe to Shawn Schuster's posts)
Jan 16th 2009 @ 10:04AM

Filed under: Alternative Energy, Climate Change

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NASA has just announced that a 2003 discovery of gas being released from Mars is definitively methane gas. Luckily for the Martians, the atmosphere of Mars prevents a build-up of the gas, otherwise they could quickly face their own global warming problems. Yet, what's interesting is the fact that there are essentially two sources for methane: biological or geological means.

This means that it is still very possible for life to exist on the red planet, even in a microscopic capacity, miles beneath the permafrost layers. This also gives hope to scientists for the research of not only the creation and destruction of methane gas on Mars, but also how it could potentially be applied to our own uses here on Earth. Methane gas is the main component of natural gas, which is used for fuel. Alternatively, it is also a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more powerful than CO2, and blamed for much of our planet's global warming problems. Let's hope this discovery on Mars can only mean good things for us and our planet.

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1-16-2009 @ 1:29PM

Hollie said...

The ice caps on Mars are melting, perhaps Mars is already experiencing global warming:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_southpole.htm

( I blame Exxon, or possibly all the alien spacecraft buried beneath the planet surface, awaiting the Shadows' return.)

2-23-2009 @ 5:13AM

Jose Rey Salvio Jr. said...

Why trying to discover that could aid the combatting against greenhouse gases? Why not move into green energy rather than continue using that? It is us, people, who makes a change. Let us discover being green: Green Ideas

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