Mars lost habitability due to its own climate self-limiting cycle

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2025
Mars may once have flowed with rivers and lakes, but a new study led by University of Chicago planetary scientist Edwin Kite suggests its warm periods were fleeting and ultimately doomed by a self-regulating climate system. Published July 2 in Nature, the research presents a model in which increasing solar brightness briefly allowed water to flow before triggering a geochemical response that loc