Researchers using the joint Russian-European ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter have detected water vapor rising to the upper atmosphere of Mars, further contributing to the evidence that the Red Planet was once partially blue.
A whole host of orbital and rover research has been devoted to the study of traces of ancient river valleys that have long indicated that water once flowed over the surface of Mars.
New research by two scientists at the British University, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests that hydrogen is leaking out of the planet’s atmosphere.
The pair analyzed the light moving through the atmosphere using a tool called Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery aboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
Water is an important component of life, as we at least know it, and tracing its origin and history of its disappearance from the Red Planet is crucial to any colonization plan, and can provide insight. about the fate of our own planet. .
“Measuring water isotopes is an important element in understanding how Mars as a planet has lost its water over time, and therefore how the habitability of the planet has changed throughout its history,” says Manish Patel, senior lecturer in planetary sciences at the Open University.
We know that the majority of Mars’ residual moisture is trapped in its ice sheets, which encourages some questionable, but probably tongue-in-cheek, ideas to suffocate them to form the planet for human habitation.
On Wednesday, China’s Tianwen – 1 probe joined the UAE’s Hope orbit in an orbit above the Red Planet, harnessing even more of the Earth’s resources to discover what exactly happened to our nearest planetary neighbor and possibly orbit the road for human colonization in the coming decades.
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