Tracking Down the Missing Carbon From the Martian Atmosphere
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 17:40
in Astronomy & Space
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 […]