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How And Why Mars Lost Its Water, Sana Akhter, Andre Beikircher
How And Why Mars Lost Its Water, Sana Akhter, Andre Beikircher
2021 Honors Council of the Illinois Region
The topic of this paper is to investigate how and why Mars lost its water. It is important to study the loss of water on Mars because it can give us a better understanding of how Mars once looked, if life were possible, and how it could have changed so drastically to what it is now. The paper aims to address which factors led to Mars losing its water and how long ago this happened. Using our data, we will predict how quickly Mars’ core cooled, when its magnetic field weakened, and when the water was lost. We learned that …