Circumpolar ocean stability on Mars 3 Gy ago
Frédéric SchmidtInstitut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, FranceM. J. WayGoddard Space Flight Center Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration, Greenbelt, MD 20771François CostardUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, GEOPS, 91405 Orsay, FranceSylvain BouleyIMCCE–Observatoire de Paris, CNRS-UMR 8028, Paris, FranceAntoine SéjournéUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, GEOPS, 91405 Orsay, FranceIgor AleinovCenter for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025
2022en
ABI
Abstract
Significance The current Martian climate is not habitable and far from Earth’s climate. At the same time that life spread on Earth (3 Gy ago), the Red Planet was possibly more similar to our Blue Planet. Our model includes a coupled model with dynamic ocean and atmosphere including a hydrological cycle and a simplified glacier mass flux scheme. We show that an ocean is stable in agreement with interpretations of the surface geological records.
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