The geological and climatological case for a warmer and wetter early Mars

RM Ramirez, RA Craddock - Nature geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
The climate of early Mars remains a topic of intense debate. Ancient terrains preserve
landscapes consistent with stream channels, lake basins and possibly even oceans, and …

Geologic constraints on early Mars climate

ES Kite - Space Science Reviews, 2019 - Springer
Early Mars climate research has well-defined goals (MEPAG 2018). Achieving these goals
requires geologists and climate modelers to coordinate. Coordination is easier if results are …

Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars—implications for organic geochemistry

EL Scheller, J Razzell Hollis, EL Cardarelli, A Steele… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and …

[HTML][HTML] The mineral diversity of Jezero crater: Evidence for possible lacustrine carbonates on Mars

BHN Horgan, RB Anderson, G Dromart, ES Amador… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Noachian-aged Jezero crater is the only known location on Mars where clear orbital
detections of carbonates are found in close proximity to clear fluvio-lacustrine features …

Long-term drying of Mars by sequestration of ocean-scale volumes of water in the crust

EL Scheller, BL Ehlmann, R Hu, DJ Adams, YL Yung - Science, 2021 - science.org
Geological evidence shows that ancient Mars had large volumes of liquid water. Models of
past hydrogen escape to space, calibrated with observations of the current escape rate …

Depleted carbon isotope compositions observed at Gale crater, Mars

CH House, GM Wong, CR Webster… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Obtaining carbon isotopic information for organic carbon from Martian sediments has long
been a goal of planetary science, as it has the potential to elucidate the origin of such …

A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars

R Wordsworth, AH Knoll, J Hurowitz, M Baum… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Reconciling the geology of Mars with models of atmospheric evolution remains a major
challenge. Martian geology is characterized by past evidence for episodic surface liquid …

Transient reducing greenhouse warming on early Mars

R Wordsworth, Y Kalugina… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The evidence for abundant liquid water on early Mars despite the faint young Sun is a long‐
standing problem in planetary research. Here we present new ab initio spectroscopic and …

Mars' atmospheric history derived from upper-atmosphere measurements of 38Ar/36Ar

BM Jakosky, M Slipski, M Benna, P Mahaffy, M Elrod… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The history of Mars' atmosphere is important for understanding the geological evolution and
potential habitability of the planet. We determine the amount of gas lost to space through …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …