Study explains why Mars lost its water and became a barren desert
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Scientists have long known Mars once had water, but how it lost its warmth and moisture remained a mystery. A new study led by Edwin Kite from the University of Chicago, published in Nature, proposes that Mars occasionally warmed up enough for liquid water due to the sun's increasing brightness, but unlike Earth, it couldn't sustain these warmer conditions. The research provides a significant step toward understanding what changed Mars from a potentially habitable world into the barren desert planet we see today.
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Unlike Earth, Mars couldn't sustain these warmer conditions for long.
The team found evidence that Mars's atmosphere likely e
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