Scientists have suspected that Mars has had water for decades, but it was hard to say that the smallest planet on Earth had warm weather.
So far.
Mars’ early climate was subject to occasional warm periods from rising greenhouse gases caused by meteorites and volcanism – between longer cold spells – which opened the way for microbial life to emerge while they also challenges him to survive frigid times on the Red. Planet, according to a new study published in the journal Geology of nature.
Alignment of Mars geology and models of atmospheric evolution
The study’s authors – who worked under the direction of Professor Robin Wordsworth at Harvard University – emphasized the need to align the geology of Mars with models of atmospheric evolution. This is particularly troubling, as Martian geology includes past evidence for temporary bodies of melt water, as well as geochemistry suggesting a slow and intermittent transition from wet to dry – with increasingly oxidized surface conditions.
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