Ninguna detección de metano en Marte desde las primeras observaciones de ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Oleg Korablev1, Ann Carine Vandaele2, Franck Montmessin3

  • 1Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Russia. korab@iki.rssi.ru.

Nature
|April 12, 2019
PubMed
Resumen

Los científicos no han detectado el metano en Marte con el ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Este hallazgo desafía las mediciones anteriores y sugiere que puede existir un proceso de eliminación rápida en la atmósfera marciana.

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