{"id":1524,"date":"2013-11-24T19:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2020-10-22T22:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:55:34","slug":"greenhouse-gas-may-explain-liquid-water-on-early-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/24\/greenhouse-gas-may-explain-liquid-water-on-early-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse Gas May Explain Liquid Water on Early Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While the evidence for liquid water on early Mars is well established,  researchers have been hard-pressed to explain how this might have  happened, considering the sun was much fainter in the past than it is  today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ngeo2000.html\">New research<\/a> by alumnus Ty Robinson and several VPL collaborators now shows that in addition to carbon dioxide and water vapor, Mars&#8217;s ancient atmosphere could have also contained just enough hydrogen to create a strong  greenhouse effect, raising temperatures enough to allow for liquid water on the planet&#8217;s surface. Read the UW News release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/25\/study-greenhouse-gas-might-have-warmed-early-mars-enough-to-allow-liquid-water\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the evidence for liquid water on early Mars is well established, researchers have been hard-pressed to explain how this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[188],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}