SUPERPOWEARTH�NASA SPACE APPS CHALLENGE
Solution presented by :
Farah Taleb
Moussa Elmoussa
Nizar Riachi
Zaherddine Zod
INTRODUCTION
In pursuit of our goal, imagining a new way to help the environment, we learned thanks to the open source data more about Earth abilities and we captured one of them in a figure.
In the second part of our solution, we created a new super ability that would help solve the environmental crisis that we are all facing.
In the first part of the solution, we came up with a figure that captures the main components of Earth life.
The light visible through water vapor is the driving force behind trees life, the tree that holds the soil tight so other life forms can prosper.
One of these life forms are bacteria (more about that later).
FIGURE EXPLANATION
From clouds to vapor to underground water, water is everywhere!
Through precipitation, evaporation, freezing and melting and condensation, water completes the hydrological cycle and continues to sustain life on Earth.
Because of the various energy exchanges, the water cycle is very vulnerable to global warming and climate change but the relation here is also dialectical as stated by NRC report 1999:"Water is at the heart of both the causes and effects of climate change.“
In the light of this information and as the second part of our solution, we thought of a super ability that hopefully solve the problem.
SUPER ABILITY
Greenhouse gases are known to cause climate change by global warming.
So the way to solve this problem is either by closing the sources of these gases or creating special sinks that reduce their presence in the atmosphere.
And what is a better sink than an efficient self replicating machines that can live in harsh and extreme conditions, what’s better than BACTERIAS, flying bacteria that can be anywhere in the atmosphere to react with these gases ?!!
Bacteria that reacts with carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides… already exists.
Bacteria name | Targeted gas |
Escherichia coli | carbon dioxide |
Anammox | nitrogen oxide |
Methanotrophs | methane |
RESOURCES AND REFERENCES