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Mars’ wispy atmosphere doesn’t allow liquids to pool on the surface, like on Earth. Instead of melting, ice sublimates, turning directly into a gas. The sudden transition in spring means a lot of violent changes as both water ice and carbon dioxide ice — dry ice, which is much more plentiful on Mars than frozen water — weaken and break. ... More @Wikipedia
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- Mars Facts - Science@NASAMars – the fourth planet from the Sun – is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. This dynamic planet has seasons, polar ice caps, extinct volcanoes, canyons and weather.
- Atmosphere of Mars - WikipediaThe atmosphere of Mars is the layer of gases surrounding Mars. It is primarily composed of carbon dioxide (95%), molecular nitrogen (2.85%), and argon (2%). [3] It also contains trace levels of water vapor, oxygen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and noble gases.
- Mars - Atmosphere, Climate, Dust Storms | BritannicaThe atmosphere is very thin, exerting less than 1 percent of Earth’s atmospheric pressure at the surface. Surface pressures range over a factor of 15 because of the large altitude variations in Mars’s topography. Only small amounts of water are present in the atmosphere today.
- The atmosphere of Mars as observed by InSight - NatureInSight is uniquely sensitive to large-scale and regional weather and obtained detailed in situ coverage of a regional dust storm on Mars. Images have enabled high-altitude wind speeds to be...
- Mars - Atmosphere, Surface, Pressure | BritannicaMars once had a much thicker atmosphere that was mostly lost to space through the solar wind and the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation, which were much more intense in the early solar system. Methane has also been detected in Mars’s atmosphere.
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