Scientists Have Discovered How Mars Became a Desert

Scientists have discovered the real reason Mars turned into a dry, barren desert, and it’s pretty shocking. A long time ago, the Red Planet had lakes, rivers, and maybe even oceans, but something caused all that water to disappear. It turns out Mars lost its protective magnetic field, which let solar winds strip away its atmosphere over millions of years. Without a thick atmosphere to trap heat and keep water from evaporating, the planet slowly dried up. Now, all that’s left are dusty plains, deep canyons, and frozen ice beneath the surface. But if we ever want to live there, scientists are working on ways to bring some of that lost water back! Credit:
MarsCuriosityRover: By NASA / JPL-Caltech / Olivier de Goursac, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24439213
Curiosity Cradled: By NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16058, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20681168
PIA19080-MarsRoverCuriosity: By NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37312498
Gale Crater: By NASA/JPL-Caltech - https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21255, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56577299
Martian Rocks: By NASA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10545321
Gale Crater 2: By NASA/JPL-Caltech - https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21255, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56577300
Jezero Crater Minerals: By NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL/Purdue/USGS, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83905251
Concentration en minéraux: By NASA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91097062
Curiosity Rover Animation: By NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / YouTube, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_Science_Laboratory_Curiosity_Rover_Animation.webm
Curiosity: By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Watch_how_Curiosity_will_cruise_around_Mars_and_gather_samples_for_inspection.ogv
Water Ice Map for Mars: By NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84799085
Ancient Lake: By NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS - https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17596, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30153051
Kolskaya-sverhglubokaya: By Alexander Novikov, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130595242
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