Life on Mars: what climate change tells us about the red planet

A new study challenges us to think about the Martian environment as we have never conceived it before
By SOFIA QUAGLIA | Inverse |

INVERSE - Timothy Lyons, a distinguished professor of biogeochemistry, discusses his new research to better understand the history of the atmosphere on Mars. 

Scientists have developed a new model to better understand whether Mars once hosted water — and maybe even life.

The Martian surface is an inhospitable place: It is too cold for humans to live comfortably on it, and it lacks liquid water. But it was not always so. Some 4 billion years ago, the Red Planet was a very different place. It may even have hosted oceans. So what happened to make Mars lose its water, and, in turn, potentially its surface life?

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