According to ESA, Mars' atmosphere is composed of 95.32% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon and 0.13% oxygen. The atmospheric pressure at the surface is 6.35 mbar which is over 100 times ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has observed atmospheric sputtering on Mars for the first time, confirming how solar wind stripped the Red Planet’s thick atmosphere and transformed its climate.

The team studying these sounds found that Mars' thin air, composed mostly of carbon dioxide, makes sound waves behave ...

Mars is a cold and inhospitable world. Water on this planet boils at much lower temperatures than on Earth, and the pressure is so low that water would immediately vaporize in a human’s body.

Here, at sea level, the pressure is equivalent to 101,325 pascals; on Mars it barely reaches 600 pascals, less than 1 percent of Earth’s pressure. So to begin terraforming, scientists must first ...

As on Earth, where average atmospheric pressure clocks in at around 101.3 kilopascals (kPa), areas of Mars experience differing levels of atmospheric pressure. The peak of Olympus Mons (the ...

exposing them to Mars-like conditions for five hours in a simulation of the planet's atmospheric composition, pressure, temperature fluctuations, and X-ray radiation. The findings suggest that ...

a compressor first pulls Mars atmosphere into the system and compresses it from Mars pressure to stack pressure. A heat exchanger recuperates some heat from the exhaust gases to incoming gas from ...

Oxygen could also be produced in this way under water or in space -- without requiring stringent conditions such as pressure and temperature ... the exploration of Mars and oxygen supply for ...