The Absence of an Ocean and the Fate of Water all Over the Martian History

Abstract Existing data returned in >40 years of planetary missions to Mars provided a good basis to understand that an ocean never existed on the surface of the planet during its whole history. The presence of environmental indicators like unaltered jarosite and olivine deposited by the early vol...

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Main Author: Giovanni Leone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2020-04-01
Series:Earth and Space Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA001031