Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our oceans, according to new research.
Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our deep oceans by helping drive “giant whirlpools,” according to new research. Scientists analyzed sediments, drilled from hundreds of deep-sea sites over the past half century, to look back tens of millions of years into Earth’s past, in a quest to better understand the strength of deep ocean currents. What they found surprised them.
Because satellite data that can visibly map changes in ocean circulation has only been available for a few decades, sediment cores — which help to build a picture of the past going back millions of years — are very useful for understanding circulation changes in a warmer climate, Müller told CNN. If today’s human-caused warming continues on its current trajectory, Müller said, “this effect will dwarf all other processes for a long time to come.
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