Is it worth changing the Earth’s orbit?
Sohrab Rahvar is an astronomer and physics professor at Iran’s Sharif University of Technology. According to the scientist, it is possible to lower the global temperature through a rather unusual way.
Greenhouse gas emissions are not without an impact on the temperatures found on our planet; on the contrary, they are driving their adverse changes. Sohrab Rahvar argues that a good way to undertake to lower the Earth’s global temperature might be… to change its orbit.
Interestingly, the chances of such a change occurring on its own are extremely low, but Rahvar refuses to give up. In his opinion, humanity will be able to undertake such a feat and may try to influence the Earth’s orbit.
Professor Rahvar says that if we wanted to, we could halt the adverse changes on our planet, and the key in all this will be the use of gravitational assists. Before we go any further, it is worth recalling that this is, among other things, a technique used to achieve higher speeds by space probes.
Gravity assist — as the name suggests — uses the gravitational field of large celestial bodies. Space probes, which are sent towards the outer planets of the…
