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Mars' Missing Air Might Just be Hiding
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post Jan 25 2007, 09:06 PM
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Mars' Missing Air Might Just be Hiding
By Ker Than
Staff Writer, Space.com
posted: 25 January 2007
02:01 pm ET

This refers to the Barabash et al. paper ("Martian Atmospheric Erosion Rates") being published in the January 26, 2007, issue of Science.
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post Jan 26 2007, 03:32 PM
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Yes - one would assume such things drop off at a rate dictated by where you draw a vertical line on a bell curve, and as the total ammount decreases, so does the ammount above the line...perhaps that was already figured into their calculations though?

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- AlexBlackwell   Mars' Missing Air Might Just be Hiding   Jan 25 2007, 09:06 PM
- - tty   I don't buy the impact theory, at least as it ...   Jan 26 2007, 07:41 AM
- - SigurRosFan   Another releated release: - Hints of huge water r...   Jan 26 2007, 01:19 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Jan 26 2007, 01:19 P...   Jan 26 2007, 01:34 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (SigurRosFan @ Jan 26 2007, 05:19 A...   Jan 26 2007, 03:25 PM
- - nprev   I don't buy the impact theory either. The bodi...   Jan 26 2007, 03:13 PM
- - djellison   Yes - one would assume such things drop off at a r...   Jan 26 2007, 03:32 PM
- - nprev   Thing is, though, Mars' atmospheric density in...   Jan 26 2007, 03:47 PM
- - NMRguy   I guess I come from a slightly different science b...   Jan 26 2007, 10:28 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (NMRguy @ Jan 26 2007, 12:28 PM) I ...   Jan 26 2007, 10:52 PM

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