Circumpolar ocean stability on Mars 3 Gy ago
Abstract
The current Martian climate is not habitable and far from Earth's climate. At the same time that life spread on Earth (3 Gy ago), the Red Planet was possibly more similar to our Blue Planet. Our model includes a coupled model with dynamic ocean and atmosphere including a hydrological cycle and a simplified glacier mass flux scheme. We show that an ocean is stable in agreement with interpretations of the surface geological records.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- January 2022
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.2112930118
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2310.00461
- Bibcode:
- 2022PNAS..11912930S
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 3 figures