Opp!!! Sulfur dioxide may have helped maintain a warm early Mars

All about :Sulfur dioxide (SO2) may have played a key role in the climate and geochemistry of early -Mars-, geoscientists at Harvard University __ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggest in the Des 21 issue of the journal "Science".

- Their hypothesis may resolve longstanding questions about evidence that the climate of the Red Planet was once much warmer than it is today.

- The Science paper's authors are Itay Halevy, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard's Department of Earth and Daniel Schrag and Maria Zuber professor of earth, atmospheric& planetary.

- A significant portion of the collaboration occurred during Zuber's 2002-03 year as a Radcliffe Institute fellow...