Discovery Could Reveal Secrets Of Ancient Martian And Terrestrial Atmospheres

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Discovery Could Reveal Secrets of Ancient Martian and Terrestrial Atmospheres

 

Dust Storms common to Mars (top) and Earth facilitate the chemical reaction discovered by the UC San Diego chemists. (Credit: NASA)

 

ScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2010) — Chemists at UC San Diego have uncovered a new chemical reaction on tiny particulates in the atmosphere that could allow scientists to gain a glimpse from ancient rocks of what the atmospheres of the Earth and Mars were like hundreds of millions years ago.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101108151330.htm