{"id":10065,"date":"2015-03-05T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2015-03-05T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T20:04:14","slug":"nasa-study-indicates-mars-once-had-huge-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10065","title":{"rendered":"NASA study indicates Mars once had huge ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mars was a whole lot wetter once upon a time:<\/p>\n

NASA Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water
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NASA scientists have determined that a primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean and that the Red Planet has lost 87 percent of that water to space.\u00a0Image Credit: NASA\/GSFC<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth\u2019s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures in the Red Planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Scientists have been searching for answers to why this vast water supply left the surface. Details of the observations and computations appear in Thursday\u2019s edition of Science magazine.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur study provides a solid estimate of how much water Mars once had, by determining how much water was lost to space,\u201d said Geronimo Villanueva, a scientist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the new paper. \u201cWith this work, we can better understand the history of water on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n