{"id":99110,"date":"2019-11-28T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T21:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/massive-dust-towers-are-linked-to-mars-ancient-water-loss-says-nasa"},"modified":"2019-11-28T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T00:38:48","slug":"massive-dust-towers-are-linked-to-mars-ancient-water-loss-says-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/massive-dust-towers-are-linked-to-mars-ancient-water-loss-says-nasa","title":{"rendered":"Massive Dust Towers Are Linked To Mars\u2019 Ancient Water Loss, Says NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-dust-towers-are-linked-to-mars-ancient-water-loss-says-nasa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between the solar wind stripping its atmosphere and these horrific dust towers bleeding its water into space, Mars may not have ever had a chance at a stable climate.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA reports that these are the result of observations by NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter\u2019s heat-sensing Mars climate sounder instrument which can easily penetrate this dusty haze.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not yet able to understand how much these towers contributed to Mars\u2019 past water loss, David Kass, a planetary scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion laboratory and the Mars Climate Sounder instrument\u2019s principal investigator, told me by phone. But they are telling us that the simple extrapolations that we were doing before to explain Mars\u2019 water loss has limitations, he says.<\/p>\n<p>And even though Mars\u2019 atmosphere is roughly equal to only one percent of Earth\u2019s, Kass said the dust is able to reach high altitudes because it is extremely fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the solar wind stripping its atmosphere and these horrific dust towers bleeding its water into space, Mars may not have ever had a chance at a stable climate. NASA reports that these are the result of observations by NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter\u2019s heat-sensing Mars climate sounder instrument which can easily penetrate this dusty haze. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99119,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99110\/revisions\/99119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}