Shall We Collect Some Space Junk?

Did Mars once have an atmosphere?

I wonder how many planets are there in the universe with atmospheres?

What is the effect that can keep an atmosphere accumulated around a planet?

Let's try to find an answer to these questions today.

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The planet with an atmosphere that we know most closely is our only home, Earth!

How does the Earth's atmosphere hold up around the globe?

The answer is gravity, or in modern terms, the bending in the space-time structure of the earth, which causes atmospheric gases to remain around the earth, unable to escape from this effect.

Yes, the gases in the atmosphere also have mass, and these gases are surrounded by the earth under the gravitational influence of the earth, just like us humans. In other words, they tend to fall towards the earth.

However, there is not a single world in the universe that is a planet.

For example, Mars, which is composed of almost the same materials, does not have an atmosphere like ours around it.

It would be expected under normal circumstances. At least the hydrogen gas, which is abundant in the universe, should have been collected for so many billions of years under the influence of a celestial body the size of Mars.

It is not just one world; it will contain so many different elements. Samples collected from Mars also show that almost the surface structure consists of similar materials.

The average density of Mars is 3.9335 grams/cm3 in the written literature.

The average density of the Earth is much higher, 5,514 grams/cm3.

Mars is just over a tenth the mass of Earth, 6.4171x10^23 kg. The Earth is 5.9724x10^24 kg.

In terms of volume, Mars has a volume of 1.63x10^11 km3, while Earth has a volume 6.62 times larger, 1.08x10^12 km3.

Could it be that Mars might not be a planet large enough to hold its atmosphere around it, even if it once existed?

Does a planet have to be a certain size to have an atmosphere around it?

Or does it have other parameters?

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Yes, like the atmosphere, we also have a magnetic field around the earth, which we call the magnetic sphere.

This magnetic field is a magnetic field we have thanks to the iron ball in the core of the earth.

Unfortunately, there is no iron sphere in the core of Mars like Earth. In fact, unlike Earth, Mars has a soft liquid core and the main material of this core is sulfur (about one fifth). The rest consists of a small amount of oxygen and mostly carbon and hydrogen. It is estimated that other light gases are also in liquid form in the core.

Therefore, Mars does not have a magnetic field like Earth.

Although it has a thin atmosphere of low density on its surface, the absence of this magnetic field suggests that Mars, which was once thought to be a beautiful planet like Earth, lost its atmosphere and perhaps the water present on its surface.

So how can this happen?

Then what makes you think Mars once had water on its surface and an atmosphere?

First of all, the surface shapes prove that Mars once had water resources.

Some scientists think that if there was water, there must have been an atmosphere.

So if there was an atmosphere, where did it go?

If so, how did it go?

Those who think like this also have an answer to these questions.

These scientists say that magnetic storms coming from the sun ionize atmospheric gases. Since the ionized gases turned into charged particles, it is said that they may have been affected by this magnetic storm and slowly left Mars.

Can you imagine? The magnetic storm is slowly dragging the atmosphere behind it and literally killing the planet.

The reason is that you don't have a magnetic shield to begin with!

Earth is truly one of the lucky planets in this regard.

The magnetic field around the Earth acts as a shield that protects the earth from these magnetic storms of the sun. It virtually repels the magnetic effects caused by nuclear explosions in the sun from around the Earth and thus prevents atmospheric gases from being ionized.

In this way, our atmosphere, which extends up to 560 kilometers from the surface around the world, continues to be one of the sources of our life, one of the reasons for our breathing, in fact.

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However, scientists have a warning about this.

With the development of technology, many satellites have been placed around the world in orbits at various levels, and these satellites mostly consist of metal parts.

It is estimated that the weight of the satellites orbiting the earth and mostly these metal pieces, which have now become space garbage, has already exceeded 20 thousand tons.

Since many of these metal pieces are released outside the influence of gravity, they burn in the atmosphere and circulate around the world without being recycled.

Therefore, it is said that this metal space debris has started to have a negative impact on our magnetic shield.

In particular, it is feared that the Starlink satellites, which Elon Musk planned as an internet project and sent to space in large numbers, will have an impact on the magnetic field around the world.

Our magnetic shield is really important shield. There are scientists who think that the situation is very risky with the expected abnormality in solar explosions.

I don't know whether we should believe this scary scenario, but when we think about our Earth being the only habitable planet we know, I can say that I feel like we are seriously about to disrupt the balance of nature with our own hands, and yes, I really fear that our end will come sooner than we expect.

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There are projects being considered to collect space garbage.

It is said that the European Space Agency is especially more sensitive on this issue and has initiated a project on collecting space garbage, and is about to take initiatives on writing space law and laws at the international level.

After all, we have a space agency, and I think we are a very sensitive society.

At least our sensitivity towards the Muslim world is quite high.

I wonder if our elders can show sensitivity to this issue as well?

I don't know, oh America, oh China! Isn't there a brave man among us who will tell you to collect your space garbage?

Look, as the election time is approaching, how nice it would be to shout and fight against foreign powers in the squares.

Look, we will go to space too, we will even go to the moon, but we know these things well, how nice people were shouting in the squares that we were asked to be a space municipality.

How nice it is to criticize CeHaPe now because they even turned space into a garbage dump while we were away, this is the CeHaPe mentality. This İmamoğlu didn't even collect space garbage, brother, give us the votes and we'll show you how space garbage is collected!

If they said so, I swear some people would believe it.

Let's take care of our world, unfortunately there is no other world to live in.

With love and respect to everyone from Moscow.