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A CO2 Scrubber Explosion Filled Our Mars Habitat With “Poison Snow”

A tiny failure in our CO₂ scrubber turned Hab-1 into a whiteout blizzard—but it wasn’t snow. It was sorbent dust, blasting from a pinhole jet, coating our faceplates, crawling under door seams, and blinding the hallways… while the wall display still said “OK.” We always thought CO₂ is the slow killer—until it isn’t. The trend line spiked, the gauge slammed red, and suddenly we were fighting two enemies at once: Run the fans and you spread corrosive powder through the habitat. Kill the fans and CO₂ starts stacking until your brain is the first system to fail. In this episode, we have minutes to rebuild the habitat’s “lungs” without poisoning everything else: Isolating the CO₂ bay before the whiteout reaches clean zones Using a portable HEPA box and baffle curtain to knock the storm down Verifying the air with handheld CO₂ meters when the main system lags behind reality Switching to a secondary scrubber loop and locking in an LiOH emergency cartridge to buy time Tracking the true cause: a ruptured sorbent canister and a gritty relief valve that should’ve been caught by rising ΔP days earlier By the end, the lesson isn’t “don’t fail.” It’s fail safely—because on Mars, there’s no window to crack. You breathe whatever you broke. Comment your call: do you SHUT IT DOWN early, or RUN IT until it fails? #mars #marshabitat #marsmission #survivalonmars