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title: How Did Mars Lose It’s Atmosphere? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-did-mars-lose-its-atmosphere/
date: 2012-09-14
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# How Did Mars Lose It’s Atmosphere?

Though it doesn’t look like a nice place to live now, Mars may have had an atmosphere more like ours on Earth! But how did it lose it? One way a planet can lose its atmosphere is through a process called ‘sputtering.’ In this process, atoms are knocked away from the atmosphere due to impacts from energetic particles. Check out also Mars-Curiosity descent in Ultra HD…


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