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Curiosity findings from Yellowknife Bay sharpen CO2 paradox of ancient Mars climate

Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem. Ample evidence says ancient Mars was sometimes wet, with water flowing and pooling on the planet’s surface. Yet, the ancient sun was about one-third less warm and climate modelers struggle to produce scenarios … Continue reading

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‘Faint young Sun paradox’ a problem for Mars (and Earth, too)

Astronomers say that billions of years ago when the Sun was young, it shone with only 70 percent its current brightness, notes Robert Craddock (Smithsonian Institution). If that were true of today’s Sun,

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