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Keith Cooper

BIZARRE: Mars leaks faster when closer to the sun - You Need To See This

A red orb is seen with a reddish gradient around it.

Seasonal changes can have a dramatic effect on how quickly Mars loses its water to space, a joint study between the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has shown.

Over three billion years ago, Mars was warm and wet, with large bodies of water on its surface and a thicker atmosphere. Today, however, Mars is desolate, cold and dry. So, what happened to all the water?

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