New Delhi: Researchers have reconstructed the earliest stages of the formation of Earth and Mars and found that the planets formed in different ways, even though both were born in the same rotating cloud of gas and dust that eventually became the solar system.
"The most surprising result was that Earth and Mars appear to have formed in different ways. You might have expected that two planets formed side by side in the same solar system would share a more similar formation history," author and co-lead researcher Anders Johansen, who studies planet formation at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, said.
