Mars and the Goldie Lock Zone

Question...

It has more to do with Astrobiology than strictly Astronomy

Being Mars is farther away from the Sun than Earth, would it be fair game
to expect Mars to become habitable in a few million years as the Goldie Lock
zone reaches Mars if it hasnt yet already?

Joe Perkowski

not for another billion years at lest.


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"Perkowski" wrote in message
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Question...

It has more to do with Astrobiology than strictly Astronomy

Being Mars is farther away from the Sun than Earth, would it be fair game
to expect Mars to become habitable in a few million years as the Goldie
Lock
zone reaches Mars if it hasnt yet already?

Joe Perkowski

"Perkowski" wrote in message
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Question...

It has more to do with Astrobiology than strictly Astronomy

Being Mars is farther away from the Sun than Earth, would it be fair game
to expect Mars to become habitable in a few million years as the Goldie
Lock
zone reaches Mars if it hasnt yet already?

Joe Perkowski

I think that Mars actually lies on the edge of the Goldie Locks Zone and at
one time had an atmosphere, which made it almost Earth like. Its mean
distance from the Sun (about 1.4 AU) would make a cloudy shrouded Mars about
10 to 15 degrees colder on the average than Earth. However, some to date
unknown event stripped Mars of its tenuous atmosphere, exposing the surface
water to the Sun with subsequent evaporation, except for the frozen remnants
at the poles.
I also believe that the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, at one time
was a real planet which had the misfortune of an encounter with a rather
large heavenly object and came out as the loser. Its decimated body parts
are still present in the original orbit, but the shockwave caused by the
impact may have stripped the protective atmosphere off the planet Mars.
Other scattered debris may well have spiraled inwards towards the Sun,
struck the Earth on it journey and may well have been the cause of mass
extinctions on Earth.
Anyway, this is my story and I'm sticking with it.