Summary

Mars once had a climate that kept it warm enough for water to flow on the surface . But scientists haven’t been able to agree on an atmospheric recipe with enough warming potential. A new proposal says that hot water circulating underground produced a missing ingredient. Water reacting with iron in Mars’s crust may have delivered a steady supply of hydrogen to the atmosphere for millions of years, says Cin-Ty Lee at Rice University in Texas.

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