Research in Antarctica reveals non-organic mechanism for production of important greenhouse gas
Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 16:40
in Earth & Climate
A research team has discovered in Antarctica's Don Juan Pond a previously unreported chemical mechanism for the production of nitrous oxide, an important greenhouse gas. The discovery could help space scientists understand the meaning of similar brine pools in a place whose ecosystem most closely resembles that of Don Juan Pond: Mars.