{"id":13469,"date":"2016-11-05T14:27:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T18:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2016-11-05T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T18:27:28","slug":"video-the-history-of-the-martian-south-polar-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13469","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;The history of the Martian South Polar Cap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UC Santa Cruz grad student\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/carverbierson.wixsite.com\/site\" target=\"_blank\">Carver Bierson<\/a>\u00a0gives an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/weekly-lecture\/history-martian-south-polar-cap-0\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute talk<\/a> about how the southern polar cap of Mars came to consist of multiple alternating layers of water ice and frozen CO2. He also addresses the question of whether the storehouse of earth&#8217;s nuclear weapons could be used to melt the ice cap and provide a dense atmosphere for terraformers living there.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSQ_exfk7GA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Santa Cruz grad student\u00a0Carver Bierson\u00a0gives an interesting SETI Institute talk about how the southern polar cap of Mars came to consist of multiple alternating layers of water ice and frozen CO2. He also addresses the question of whether the storehouse of earth&#8217;s nuclear weapons could be used to melt the ice cap and provide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8220;The history of the Martian South Polar Cap&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-science","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3vf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3389,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3389","url_meta":{"origin":13469,"position":0},"title":"Ice pits and Swiss cheese terrain at the Mars south pole","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Observation satellites orbiting Mars have spotted many odd Mars surface features over the years. 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