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Mars once had an ocean with more water than the Arctic – NASA — RT News
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Mars once had an ocean with more water than the Arctic – NASA
Edited time: March 06, 2015 06:32
An artist’s impression of ancient Mars and its oceans based on geological data (Image from wikipedia.org)
Analysis of water residue in Martian ice caps indicates that the Red Planet was once – at least partly – blue. Billions of years ago, Mars had a body of water that held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to a NASA study published Thursday.
“Our study provides a solid estimate of how much water Mars once had, by determining how much later was lost to space,”said Geronimo Villanueva, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author of the paper.
The study, published in Science magazine, is a result of observations and computations based on data from three telescope facilities on Earth, the instruments of which were able to distinguish the chemical signatures of two different types of water in the remnants of Mars’ atmosphere
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