Atmospheric loss to space and the history of water on Mars

BM Jakosky - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Mars is the nearest planet that potentially harbors life and that can be explored by humans,
so its history of water is of considerable importance. Water was abundant on early Mars but …

Coupling and interactions across the Martian whole atmosphere system

E Yiğit - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
The Martian surface environment today is cold and dry, but evidence suggests the planet
may have hosted more habitable conditions in the past. Open questions about the evolution …

No detection of methane on Mars from early ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observations

O Korablev, AC Vandaele, F Montmessin, AA Fedorova… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The detection of methane on Mars has been interpreted as indicating that geochemical or
biotic activities could persist on Mars today. A number of different measurements of methane …

Water vapor vertical profiles on Mars in dust storms observed by TGO/NOMAD

S Aoki, AC Vandaele, F Daerden… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It has been suggested that dust storms efficiently transport water vapor from the near‐
surface to the middle atmosphere on Mars. Knowledge of the water vapor vertical profile …

Martian atmospheric hydrogen and deuterium: Seasonal changes and paradigm for escape to space

JT Clarke, M Mayyasi, D Bhattacharyya… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Mars' water history is fundamental to understanding Earth-like planet evolution. Water
escapes to space as atoms, and hydrogen atoms escape faster than deuterium giving an …

Hydrogen escape from Mars is driven by seasonal and dust storm transport of water

SW Stone, RV Yelle, M Benna, DY Lo, MK Elrod… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Mars has lost most of its once-abundant water to space, leaving the planet cold and dry. In
standard models, molecular hydrogen produced from water in the lower atmosphere diffuses …

Fate of an earth‐like water inventory on Mars

BM Jakosky, LJ Hallis - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We have determined the global inventory of surface and near‐surface water on Mars by
tracking the amounts of water lost to each of the significant sinks for water. The sinks include …

Explanation for the increase in high‐altitude water on Mars observed by NOMAD during the 2018 global dust storm

L Neary, F Daerden, S Aoki, J Whiteway… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD) instrument on board
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter measured a large increase in water vapor at altitudes in the …

Isotopic fractionation of water and its photolytic products in the atmosphere of Mars

J Alday, A Trokhimovskiy, PGJ Irwin, CF Wilson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The current Martian atmosphere is about five times more enriched in deuterium than Earth's,
providing direct testimony that Mars hosted vastly more water in its early youth than …

Global vertical distribution of water vapor on Mars: Results from 3.5 years of ExoMars‐TGO/NOMAD science operations

S Aoki, AC Vandaele, F Daerden… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present water vapor vertical distributions on Mars retrieved from 3.5 years of solar
occultation measurements by Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery onboard the …