Mars is losing water faster than scientists expected

The red planet continues to surprise scientists. In November 2019, researchers discovered fluctuations in oxygen on Mars and said they could not explain them. Recently, the red planet has given us another mystery.

The problem of dehydration on Mars continues to cause scientists headaches.

Mars is losing water much faster than previously estimated, scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research said. In the newly published study, scientific researchers say that during the hottest and stormy times of the planet, the Martian atmosphere contains 10 to 100 times more steam than its physical temperature. theory of permission.

Franck Montmessin, co-author of the study and planetary scientist at Paris-Saclay University, said in an interview with Space.com that these processes "were not observed anywhere else in the world." Solar system".

The saturation of water in the atmosphere allows water to reach the upper atmosphere, something scientists previously thought was impossible.

Franck Montmessin said the scientists predicted that water would be limited by the cold temperatures above and bound to condense into clouds.

The scientists say these findings suggest that evaporation of water on Mars occurs faster than previously thought. In their study, the researchers used data from the Trace Gas Orbiter probe, as part of the Exo Mars mission, a joint program between the European Space Agency and its Russian partner, Roscosmos. .

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