Solid-gas carbonate formation during dust events on Mars

Wenshuo Mao; Xiaohui Fu; Zhongchen Wu; Jiang Zhang; Zongcheng Ling; Yang Liu; Yu-Yan Sara Zhao; Hitesh G Changela; Yuheng Ni; Fabao Yan; Yongliao Zou

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwac293

Solid-gas carbonate formation during dust events on Mars

Natl Sci Rev. 2023 Jan 11;10(4):nwac293. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwac293. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Authors

Wenshuo Mao¹, Xiaohui Fu^{1

2}, Zhongchen Wu¹, Jiang Zhang¹, Zongcheng Ling^{1

2}, Yang Liu³, Yu-Yan Sara Zhao^{4

2}, Hitesh G Changela^{5

6}, Yuheng Ni¹, Fabao Yan⁷, Yongliao Zou³

Affiliations

¹ Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, School of Space Science and Physics, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, China.
² CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
⁴ International Center for Planetary Science, College of Earth Science, Chengdu University of Technology, China.
⁵ J'Heyrovski Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.
⁶ Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of New Mexico, USA.
⁷ School of Mechanical, Electrical & Information Engineering, Shandong University, China.

Abstract

Electrostatic discharge experiments under simulated martian atmospheric conditions indicate that atmospheric CO₂ has been sequestered into carbonate by the Mars dust activities during the Amazonia era.