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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Global warming on Mars: may not be unique to just Earth
By William Atkins
Thursday, 05 April 2007
More of the famous red dust that has resulted in Mars being called the Red Planet may be the cause of why NASA scientists have seen increased warming of the planet over three decades.
NASA researchers led by Lori Fenton, at the Ames Research Center (California) have used climate models used here on the Earth for their modeling of the Martian climate. Their results find that Mars has warmed by about 0.65 degrees Celsius in the past thirty years.
The first mapping of the planet was performed in the mid-1970s and early 1980s when the Viking mission visited Mars as Viking 1 and Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and rover. The Fenton team compared the maps produced by the Viking mission with more recent maps produced by the Mars Global Surveyor, which launched in November 1996 and provided data to NASA until November 2006.
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Thursday, 05 April 2007
More of the famous red dust that has resulted in Mars being called the Red Planet may be the cause of why NASA scientists have seen increased warming of the planet over three decades.
NASA researchers led by Lori Fenton, at the Ames Research Center (California) have used climate models used here on the Earth for their modeling of the Martian climate. Their results find that Mars has warmed by about 0.65 degrees Celsius in the past thirty years.
The first mapping of the planet was performed in the mid-1970s and early 1980s when the Viking mission visited Mars as Viking 1 and Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and rover. The Fenton team compared the maps produced by the Viking mission with more recent maps produced by the Mars Global Surveyor, which launched in November 1996 and provided data to NASA until November 2006.
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