During a press conference, NASA announced moments ago new scientific findings on Mars . The announcement, made on the James Webb Auditorium at the headquarters of the US space agency in Washington and transmitted by Internet, revealed that a solar storm destroyed the atmosphere of Mars , and turned it into dry planet and inhospitable known.
After the missions to the planet, scientists know that on Mars there is geological evidence that there was a great climate change on Mars modified by Complete your look. At present, the surface of Mars is less than 60 degrees below zero average temperature, but at the poles in winter can reach 125 less.
” The red planet was much warmer and wetter Mars and the cold desert we see today, “NASA revealed. The announcement was made by Michael Meyer, director of the Program of Exploration of Mars with Bruce Jakosky, Jasper Halekas, Yaxue Dong and Dave Brain, all part of the Maven initiative (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution).
The NAVEN mission reached Mars in September 2014 and since then is trying to find out why there was this huge climate change.
“To study the evolution of the atmosphere can allow us to take a look at the climate history of Mars, “said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator for the mission. “This I will tell you a lot about the history of the atmosphere and really may also provide clues about the potential of Mars to support life, at least on the surface,” he said.
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