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Can you make air on Mars?

Updated: 8/9/2023
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That depends on what the bubble is made out of. If you are talking about a soap bubble, no. There is only a virtual atmosphere on Mars - just a bit of this and that floating around. The pressure of just about any amount of gas applied to blow a soap bubble would burst it immediately. The soap film is only strong enough to make a bubble in a situation where there is some amount of atmosphere around it.

On Earth, we have the pressure of the atmosphere all around us under normal circumstances. On Mars, forget it. Of course, if you constructed a pressure dome there, you could maintain the same sort of atmospheric pressure that exists naturally on Earth.

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There is a small amount of gaseous oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars, about 0.13%. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is there as carbon dioxide, CO2. This gas makes up 95% of the very, very thin atmosphere.

However, there is still quite a lot more oxygen on Mars - as iron oxides. These are mostly what give Mars its red color. It would be theoretically possible to extract both pure oxygen and pure iron from these rocks, which is probably where the oxygen for any Mars colonists would need to come from.

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The oxygen portion of air suitable for humans to use on Mars can be manufactured by electrolysis of water, decomposition of mineral oxides by heat, or the photosynthesis of Martian carbon dioxide.

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There is oxygen on Mars. It's just not in the form of oxygen gas in the atmosphere, and there isn't enough atmosphere of any kind to keep your lungs from rupturing anyway.

That said, if you could collect the oxygen on Mars and compress it to a reasonable density, sure, you could breathe it. It's just oxygen, it doesn't matter what planet it came from.

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Yes. Unfortunately, the oxygen easily available on Mars appears to be in the form of iron oxide, or "rust", which gives Mars its reddish color.

There is no free oxygen in the atmosphere that animals or people could breathe.

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Yes, or you will die. Earth is the only planet in our solar system with enpugh oxygen to support life.

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No. There is no free oxygen on Mars. The thin atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide.

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