John Mason’s Planetologists have revealed that the similence of solar wind with the atmosphere of Mars cannot explain the loss of all surface water. According to the conclusions published in the journal Science, in this process also the keywords played factors such as meteorological gravitational waves, convection and dust storms.
It is known that under the influence of ultraviolet in the lower part of the atmosphere of Mars, the water is occurs, that is, the decomposition of the molecule on oxygen and hydrogen, which is then worn into space. Throughout billion years, this led to the fact that all surface reservoirs disappeared from the surface of the red planet. However, in the new work, researchers challenge this point of view and offer new mechanisms that contribute to photo gallery.
Experiments demonstrated that water could be transferred from the lower at the top of the atmosphere before being subjected to photolism. This transfer could facilitate a combination of such reasons as convection flows at low heights, dust storms or internal gravitational waves – oscillations in the atmosphere, caused including gravity.
Scientists argue their hypothesis by the fact that the loss of water Mars continues and occur mainly in the summer, when the global dust storms season begins. This can contribute to the pushing of water and hydrogen molecules in the upper atmosphere. Also, gravitational waves contribute to the poverty, since they provide interaction between the lower and the upper layers of the gas shell.