The divergent fates of primitive hydrospheric water on Earth and Mars

• Main Authors: Wade, Jon, Dyck, Brendan, Palin, Richard M., Moore, James Daniel Paul, Smye, Andrew J.
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Geochemistry; Inner planets
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86885; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44211
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Despite active transport into Earth’s mantle, water has been present on our planet’s surface for most of geological time1,2. Yet water disappeared from the Martian surface soon after its formation. Although some of the water on Mars was lost to space via photolysis following the collapse of the plan...