Circumpolar ocean stability on Mars 3 Gy ago
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
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.
Recommended citation: Schmidt, F.; Way, M. J.; Costard, F.; Bouley, S.; Séjourné, A. & Aleinov, I. Circumpolar ocean stability on Mars 3 Gy ago, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119, e2112930118,
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