Mars losing its atmosphere to outer space at faster rate than Earth, reveals Isro's MOM study
India TodayMars is losing its atmosphere to outer space at a faster rate, a study of data and images sent by Isro’s Mars Orbiter Mission and Nasa’s Mars orbiter Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution has found. Isro study on dust storms on Mars An Isro statement said, as quoted by TOI, “In the first week of June 2018, a global dust storm, also called a “planet-encircling dust event”, started growing on Mars and it had grown to its mature phase by the first week of July. The heating and expansion of the global dust storm led to a part of Mars atmosphere quickly reaching the exobase altitude. Hence, from the results of the present study it can be inferred that the 2018 global dust storm resulted in enhanced escape of the Martian atmosphere.” An artistic impression of the Mars upper atmospheric expansion due to the global dust storm.
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