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? asked in Science & MathematicsAstronomy & Space · 4 months ago

Could a significant amount of air be released on Mars? What would happen to it?

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  • Mike G
    Lv 7
    4 months ago

    No. How would this air get to Mars?

  • Campbell Hayden
    Lv 7
    4 months ago

    Any amount of air that is released on Mars will immediately be contaminated by the surface radiation that has built up on the planet, and it will almost instantly dissolve into space because 

    the Martian atmosphere is not dense enough to keep air intact 

    or 'in place' so that it can actually become a new atmosphere.

  • ReductioAdAstronomicus
    Lv 6
    4 months ago

    It would slowly leak off into space, because Mars has too little mass and too high a temperature to hold an atmosphere of air.

  • mars
    Lv 7
    4 months ago

    Atomic oxygen would erode its energy.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 months ago

    anything is possible

  • orpheus_sword
    Lv 5
    4 months ago

    It would evaporate, essentially boils off the surface.  Mars lacks the gravity and magnetic fields to prevent the solar radiation from stripping it off.

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