Did Asteroids Create An Ocean On Mars?

[Waspie_Dwarf]

Asteroid barrage may have birthed a short-lived ocean on Mars

Mars may once have had an ocean – but only for a geological blink of an eye, which puts a dampener on ideas that there is or was life on the Red Planet. That’s according to a new theory put forward by Tim Parker of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Speaking at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas this week, he argued that a sustained barrage of asteroids hitting the young Mars could have delivered water to the surface, at least temporarily.

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[paperdyer]

So, wouldn't the same theories apply to the Earth as well?

[Grandpa Greenman]

So, wouldn't the same theories apply to the Earth as well?

Earth is bigger, has a molten core and a magnetic field that keeps the solar wind from blowing away the water and atmosphere.

[paperdyer]

Earth is bigger, has a molten core and a magnetic field that keeps the solar wind from blowing away the water and atmosphere.

Perhaps Mars did at one time as well. Isn't that what we are really trying to find out up there, or is it out there?.