期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 44, 期 2, 页码 665-671出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071766
关键词
Mars; valley networks; astrobiology; methane; hydrogen; paleoclimate
资金
- Kavli Foundation
- RFBR [15-03-03302, 15-05-00736]
- Russian Academy of Sciences [9]
The evidence for abundant liquid water on early Mars despite the faint young Sun is a long-standing problem in planetary research. Here we present new ab initio spectroscopic and line-by-line climate calculations of the warming potential of reduced atmospheres on early Mars. We show that the strength of both CO2-H-2 and CO2-CH4 collision-induced absorption (CIA) has previously been significantly underestimated. Contrary to previous expectations, methane could have acted as a powerful greenhouse gas on early Mars due to CO2-CH4 CIA in the critical 250-500cm(-1) spectral window region. In atmospheres of 0.5bar CO2 or more, percent levels of H-2 or CH4 raise annual mean surface temperatures by tens of degrees, with temperatures reaching 273K for pressures of 1.25-2bars and 2-10% of H-2 and CH4. Methane and hydrogen produced following aqueous alteration of Mars' crust could have combined with volcanically outgassed CO2 to form transient atmospheres of this composition 4.5-3.5Ga. Our results also suggest that inhabited exoplanets could retain surface liquid water at significant distances from their host stars.
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