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Lightning on Mars is probably rare and weak

Posted on May 16, 2019 by rburnham

[Editor’s note: From a paper by Gerhard Wurm and four co-authors recently published in Icarus.] A Challenge for Martian Lightning: Limits of Collisional Charging at Low Pressure • Collision experiments on identical grains show a strong dependence of charging on … Continue reading →

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Methane in a flash

Posted on September 10, 2012 by rburnham

Martian methane is a hot topic because of its potential origin in biological, as well as geological processes. Observations (Earth-based and from Mars orbit) have found only a small quantity of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere of Mars — … Continue reading →

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