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NASA's newest Mars orbiter is piecing together the history and even the future of the red planet's atmosphere one measurement at a time.

Scientists think that Mars was once a warmer, wetter world billions of years ago, but over time the rust-colored planet slowly shed its atmosphere to space, turning the world into the cold, dry place it is today.

NASA sent the MAVEN (short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) orbiter to the planet in 2013 to try to help learn more about the world's past, and a series of studies published in the journal Science this week help reveal new insights into what could have happened to the small world's atmosphere.

For one thing, the planet is still losing more of its atmosphere, scientists found. MAVEN found that Mars is losing about 100 grams of atmosphere per second, and that rate skyrockets during large solar storms.

"We’re seeing loss of the atmosphere to space ongoing today," Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator for the MAVEN mission, told Mashable via email. "The loss rate is relatively low, but still enough to remove the entire Mars atmosphere in a couple of billion years."

Learning more about the past Martian climate could actually have some bearing on whether the planet, as a whole, was once habitable in the distant past.

Other Mars missions to the surface of the red planet have shown that the world once played host to long-lived lakes and, at least some parts of the planet, could have been habitable for microbes billions of years ago.

"We see evidence that the loss rate increases during solar storms and that it likely was greater early in Mars' history," he added. "Thus, we think that stripping of the atmosphere by the solar wind was likely to have been a significant process driving the changes in the Mars climate."

Mars' magnetic field likely would have protected the planet from the solar wind early in the planet's history, but when the field disappeared about 4.2 billion years ago, it left the planet vulnerable, allowing the sun to strip away the red planet's atmosphere and surface water.

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Interplanetary dust high in the atmosphere

Another interesting finding detailed in one of the new studies is somewhat unexpected.

An instrument on MAVEN called the Langmuir Probe and Wave instrument appears to have discovered interplanetary dust high in the thin Martian atmosphere.

The dust was observed 150 to 1,000 kilometers above the surface, an altitude range too high to be particles lofted into the atmosphere from Mars itself by any currently known means, the study found.

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"It's the first time we are measuring the dust going into an atmosphere which is not our own," Laila Andersson, co-author of the new study detailing the interplanetary dust, told Mashable in an interview.

Earth is also bombarded by interplanetary dust on a regular basis. When large chunks of rock or ice enter our planet's atmosphere, they can streak through the sky as bright meteors, but the particles detected by MAVEN are likely too small to create that kind of light show in the Martian skies, Andersson said.

And it's probably not just interplanetary dust either, Andersson said. Statistically, some of those particles detected by MAVEN have interstellar origins, she added.

Scientists have a pretty good sense that this is a detection of interplanetary dust partially because the instrument was able to detect metal ions like iron when the craft dipped into the atmosphere, Paul Mahaffy a scientist affiliated with the MAVEN mission but not an author on this study, told Mashable via email.

Those detections "are yet another signature of interplanetary dust impacting the atmosphere which as they break up produce ions," Mahaffy said of the dust particles.

But the only way to be "absolutely certain" that these particles are interplanetary (or even interstellar) is to decipher their composition, something that isn't possible with the Langmuir Probe, Mahaffy added.

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The instrument itself wasn't actually expected to make this kind of discovery at all, according to the mission team.

"The Langmuir Probe was not designed to detect dust but to measure charged particles in the upper atmosphere of Mars," Mahaffy said.

"Its remarkable that dust that is just a few microns in size can be detected by this sensitive instrument following an impact of the dust on the spacecraft!"

Auroras in Mars' skies

MAVEN has also seen auroras in the Martian skies. The spacecraft actually saw two different kinds of auroras on Mars. One set of auroras are like the northern and southern lights on Earth, produced along magnetic field lines when charged particles from the sun slam into particles in the red planet's thin atmosphere.

The other kind of aurora seem to actually appear in many different longitudes on the red planets, and it's even possible that an astronaut on the planet could see the entire sky light up with an aurora glow from these Martian lights, MAVEN scientist Dave Brain said during a news conference Thursday.

The spacecraft detected these "auroral emissions" for about five days in almost every longitude on the planet, and the auroras actually penetrate more deeply on Mars than "confirmed at any other planet," according to the study.

"Given minimal magnetic fields over most of the planet, Mars is likely to exhibit auroras more globally than Earth," the authors wrote in the paper.

It is absolutely amazing how we humans always seem to think that analien species will look just like us. In one of my recent posts 5 different types of aliens I noticed while researching this that they all looked kind of like humans. WHAT??? no giant spiders or large bird type people? With this in mind I decided to look into the possibility that they would look similar to us …. or not.

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The design of an alien species.

If you look around on earth alone we have a huge array of different types of species, and while they are probably not as intelligent as us at the moment they are different. Why would humans believe that if intelligent life came to us from outer space they would have the characteristic of humans even if they have a lizard type skin. We seem to inherently believe that if a being is standing up on 2 legs and walking with 2 arms that the being is suddenly more intelligent. If you believe that then you did not watch the movie alien. And what a movie that was, great stuff. Now that’s what you might expect from an alien species rather than some humanoid figure. The mere fact that all alien sightings seem to give this picture makes me think they might be fake, or we ourselves are the aliens.

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While it is possible for us to look similar it just seems so unlikely if you look at the amount of different species on earth. Surely with a universe so large there would be alien species that look completely different to anything we know and understand. The idea that they could simply step onto our planet when visiting is also absurd as you are assuming that our planet provides the perfect condition for life while certain types of life can even live in acid. It is doubtful that any 2 planets will have the exact same condition but some may have similar conditions giving rise to similar life to our planet. This said the bugs and bacteria on these different planets would most likely differ thus the spread of disease could be a risk so even if a visitor could breath our atmosphere it would be prudent to at least wear some protective gear such as the a hazmat suite, if not a full space suite with oxygen or whatever they breath to stay alive ….. if they breath. This begs the question, what happens when we go there? Different gravity,different oxygen levels, different bacteria or just different everything. I doubt you would land your little space craft and simply step out to breath the lovely fresh air without thinking. If there ever was an alien crash the travelers probably would die if they were somehow exposed to us or our atmosphere in any way shape or form.

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Most life forms will adapt to their surroundings over time especially if they are born into those surroundings so it is not impossible that we ourselves might be aliens from another planet. I am pretty sure we would not be able to just land on the planet and start a new civilization so perhaps we were born onto the planet to spread our human form. This would explain sightings of certain beings that look like us. The lizard or grey type beings might actually be beings from our own planet that live below us thus the reason they don’t need a space suit as they are actually from earth in the first place and perhaps even before us since they are reptile and some of the oldest life forms on earth were reptilian. When I listen to people who say they had an encounter with a grey I can’t help thinking that they are most likely wearing a space suit rather than just being grey. Our own scientists have worked on clothing that would work in these environments that fit stylishly and look like clothing rather than a clumsy heavy NASA kit. The whole idea is to make it light and easy to wear on a daily basis if travelling. If this is the case who are they and why do they look like us in some way?

alien species

The possibility that similar types of life forms develop on different planets exists as they make up of the planets comes from the same basic stuff. This would imply that there would be aliens out there that have a similar DNA make up to humans, unless of course we have been put together as some kind of hybrid. If one looks at the pictures on ancient Sumerian ruins or even Egyptian pictures in some cases they often show a human body with a birds head or snakes head among others. One has to ask why they would draw humans in this way or what the meaning would be if it was not something that they actually encountered. Statues of beings with six arms or pictures of beings with 7 heads treated as Gods for some odd reason makes one think about what or who these species were. Whatever they were they seem to have most certainly been in charge so they could not have been freaks but something more other worldly. Perhaps the artist simply had a good imagination, but the trouble is similar depictions were found on opposite sides of the world, and if you remember we could not travel that far until recently, not to mention we as the modern world had not even discovered half the world. This would seem to point to the fact that there would have been some strange species on earth at that time but they have since disappeared.

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The ancient Sumerians history documents that we were created as workers for the Gods as they were mining the planet. Although it may seem far fetched it is the story that would make the most sense. No way we could take enough people to go and mine a planet light years away for resources, even the biggest aircraft carrier can only carry 5000 people and that is the size of a city, so how could a space craft carry more unless it was the size of a planet. The obvious solution would be to create a civilization at the destination, but as you would want them to be workers you would not like them to be educated and you would keep knowledge away from them. As soon as they acquire knowledge they would rise up and ask why they are doing all the work rather than doing what they are told. This method is even easier than creating robots as parts would have to be created or carried for robotics and the human hybrid is no maintenance as they are taught to provide food for themselves.

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So here we are thousands of years later thinking we are the best thing in the universe, and why do we think that, well because we came from a being that thought that exact way. They would have departed earth with whatever they needed 50 000 years ago leaving us to our own devices with a whole planet void of dangerous dinosaurs thanks to them. Or did the reptiles evolve into intelligent beings as they also found the tree of knowledge and they live below us? Who knows but when one looks at the different types of aliens the mind boggles as to why they resemble Homo sapiens in any way. I think I would be kind of happy not to run into an alien that looks like a giant spider or something out of the alien movie as I might drop dead from fright so I would much rather see something that looks more like myself. Perhaps that is why our sightings are so user friendly.

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“What’s that your putting on your lawn Dave?”

He said, “It’s to keep the UFO‘s and aliens away.”

I said, “We don’t get UFO’s and aliens here mate.”

“Fantastic stuff isn’t it.” He said.”

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