Friday, December 10, 2021

Lower atmospheric processes are crucial to understanding Martian water loss

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2021
Lower atmospheric processes, such as convection, dust storms and gravity waves, are vital to understanding how Mars lost its water, writes Erdal Yigit in a Perspective. It's widely thought that most of Mars' water was slowly lost to space as hydrogen over several billion years. According to standard models, water molecules, broken apart by sunlight in the lower Martian atmosphere, form fre

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