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"Where Did All of Mars' Carbon Go?" --JPL and Caltech
Galaxy Today ^ | November 24, 2015 | Staff

Posted on 11/25/2015 7:24:14 PM PST by lbryce

Caltech and JPL scientists suggest the fingerprints of early photochemistry provide a solution to the long-standing mystery. Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere—one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet from subliming or evaporating. But many researchers have suggested that the planet was once shrouded in an atmosphere many times thicker than Earth's. For decades that left the question, "Where did all the carbon go?"

Now a team of scientists from Caltech and JPL thinks they have a possible answer. The researchers suggest that 3.8 billion years ago, Mars might have had only a moderately dense atmosphere. They have identified a photochemical process that could have helped such an early atmosphere evolve into the current thin one without creating the problem of "missing" carbon and in a way that is consistent with existing carbon isotopic measurements.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailygalaxy.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Politics; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: algore; astronomy; caltech; carbondioxide; catastrophism; co2; cultofmars; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; fungusamongus; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; jpl; mars; physics; science
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Wow, his last post.

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21 posted on 04/17/2024 10:40:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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[snip] Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere -- one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet from subliming or evaporating. But many researchers have suggested that the planet was once shrouded in an atmosphere many times thicker than Earth's. For decades that left the question, "Where did all the carbon go?" Now a team of scientists from Caltech and JPL... have identified a photochemical process that could have helped such an early atmosphere evolve into the current thin one without creating the problem of "missing" carbon and in a way that is consistent with existing carbon isotopic measurements. [/snip]
Sagan worship continues.



22 posted on 04/17/2024 10:43:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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