Establishment and stabilization of earthlike conditions on Venus Export

@article{citeulike:3046615, abstract = {Removing its massive atmosphere is the single greatest obstacle in terraforming Venus. Reacting it with externally derived material is difficult because of the great mass required and because many reducing agents readily accessible elsewhere in the solar system (e.g., C-H compounds) cannot be used because they yield gaseous species that exacerbate the greenhouse effect. Ca and/or Mg metal, refined from Mercury, are possible reductants. Manufacturing such an extraordinary amount of free, reactive metal for atmosphere reduction will require an extremely high order of self-replicating, differentiating robots and thus is not a near-term project. Stabilizing earthlike conditions will be difficult; little water and hypersaline seas, to reduce the vapor pressure of water, are possible stratagems.}, author = {Gillett, S. L.}, citeulike-article-id = {3046615}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1991JBIS...44..151G}, journal = {Journal of the British Interplanetary Society}, keywords = {bio-astro, earth-science, ecophysiology, planet-model}, month = {April}, pages = {151--156}, posted-at = {2008-07-28 01:47:36}, priority = {2}, title = {Establishment and stabilization of earthlike conditions on Venus}, url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1991JBIS...44..151G}, volume = {44}, year = {1991} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3046615 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3046615 N2 - Removing its massive atmosphere is the single greatest obstacle in terraforming Venus. Reacting it with externally derived material is difficult because of the great mass required and because many reducing agents readily accessible elsewhere in the solar system (e.g., C-H compounds) cannot be used because they yield gaseous species that exacerbate the greenhouse effect. Ca and/or Mg metal, refined from Mercury, are possible reductants. Manufacturing such an extraordinary amount of free, reactive metal for atmosphere reduction will require an extremely high order of self-replicating, differentiating robots and thus is not a near-term project. Stabilizing earthlike conditions will be difficult; little water and hypersaline seas, to reduce the vapor pressure of water, are possible stratagems. JF - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society EP - 156 TI - Establishment and stabilization of earthlike conditions on Venus VL - 44 SP - 151 KW - bio-astro KW - earth-science KW - ecophysiology KW - planet-model AU - Gillett, SL PY - 1991/April// UR - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1991JBIS...44..151G ER -