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| Titel |
Why has Mars uniquely preserved the record of its early (possibly habitable) times? |
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Jean-Pierre Bibring, François Forget |
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EGU General Assembly 2013
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Artikel
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Englisch
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In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
| Datensatznummer |
250080242
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Mars has preserved surface structures witnessing most steps of its evolution all along its History. Specifically, a few sites, such as Marwth Vallis, have kept the record of the sequence of events that occurred prior to the Late Heavy Bombardment, at a time Mars might have harboured habitable conditions. This study proposes a plausible reason of this unique feature of Mars, possibly in the entire solar system: water ice condensation in areas coupled to the dichotomy protected a few sites against the LHB gardening effects, offering to explore the most ancient times in inner solar system History, during which life might have emerged |
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