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re: While the "always frozen" Mars scenario
BRFelix — (archived)

is not very emotionally satisfying to many people -- it's hard to wrap yourself around an ice cube, try it and see -- it is a better fit with such evidence as we have. The high level resistance to it has set back study, in my view, but of course it wouldn't do to ask the Wet Mars scholars and advocates to piss off now, would it? ;-) Tsk. Tsk.

How do you think understanding of Mars will be changed once the Frozen Mars hypothesis becomes the standard model? Do you think, for example, it will help understanding of the (sometimes highly modified) moons of the outer planets?

How might it affect our understanding of the Solar System as a whole? If there was never a "warm wet" period on Mars, then just how cold were conditions everywhere? Was the early Earth cold and frozen at the surface too? Until when?

Thoughts?

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