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1 lip 2019 · Planetary scientists don't yet know why Mars dried out, but data suggest a substantial climate change occurred some 600 million years after the planet's formation.
6 wrz 2024 · Seasonal changes can have a dramatic effect on how quickly Mars loses its water to space, a joint study between the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution...
25 maj 2022 · Study led by UChicago scientist deepens mystery about climate of early Mars. Mars once ran red with rivers. The telltale tracks of past rivers, streams and lakes are visible today all over the planet. But about three billion years ago, they all dried up—and no one knows why.
6 wrz 2024 · Two principal theories prevail for where all the water went: it either retreated into the ground or sublimed away into space. Now, a pair of papers—one released in August and another on...
5 wrz 2024 · Now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) missions are helping unlock that mystery. Mars was once a very wet planet as is evident in its surface geological features.
7 wrz 2024 · Evidence shows that some water molecules broke into atoms, which rise through the Martian atmosphere and escape into space. By combining data from Hubble and MAVEN, a team measured the number and current rate of escaping hydrogen atoms.