Could it be Mars was similiar to Earth at point in time , and if so could Earth become how Mars is today?

Question

Is our planet going to become a big red dust ball like Mars is currently?

Answer 1

absolutely!

perhaps life was on mars... and relocated to earth after global warming from SUVs ruined the entire planet.

Ok, all joking aside, Mars appears to once have been more "earth" like. What destroyed the atmosphere is unknown. Without water there is no life.... without the atmosphere the water went by by or it went into "freezing" (water's way of hiding!)

Perhaps the sci-fi people got it wrong.... perhaps life was on Mars first.... then earth.... and when we make it to Mars we are just going back. :0)

Interesting theory: There are Biblical pre-adamite "theories" suggesting pre-adam's time there was life in the universe...... during the "gap theory" between the YOMs it took to create earth. Even in man's time there was reference to walking among the fiery stones... Clearly there are higher technologies used in our past. What sort of technological device could the ark of the covenant have been... touching it killed a man!

Perhaps we aren't the first..... or the last.... Aliens / Angels / gods.... all the same thing.

Answer 2

Many scientists have asked that very same question and the worlds best students and astronomers have postulated that there could have been life on Mars 3.5 billions years ago.

Here is an excerpt from only one of those studies.
NASA-Ames Research Center, Solar System Exploration Branch, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.

Geologic and climatologic studies suggest that conditions on early Mars were similar to early Earth. Because life on Earth is believed to have originated during this early period (3.5 billion years ago), the Martian environment could have also been conducive to the origin of life. To investigate this possibility we must first define the attributes of an early Martian biota. Then, specific geographic locations on Mars must be chosen where life may have occurred (i.e. areas which had long standing water), and within these distinct locations search for key signatures or bio-markers of a possible extinct Martian biota. Some of the key signatures or bio-markers indicative of past biological activity on Earth may be applicable to Mars including: reduced carbon and nitrogen compounds, CO3(2-), SO4(2-), NO3-, NO2- [correction of NO2(2)], Mg, Mn, Fe, and certain other metals, and the isotopic ratios of C, N and S.

Answer 3

Your answer lies with the sun. In about 6 billion years the sun will have burned so much hydrogen and converted it into helium that it will expand greatly into a red giant which will incenerate the earth and everything on it. Then it will collapse into a nutron star which will leave little light and very little heat for our solar system. So eventually all planets will have the same fate.

Mars core is no comprised of the same "stuff" that earth's is and therfore could not have the same atmosphere as we do. Hope that helps :)

Answer 4

It's highly unlikely that Mars was at any time similar to Earth in terms of living things like flowers and trees and birds and bees and thinking creatures. However, it is possible for Earth to become much like Venus in that runaway global warming could cause the loss of all the water on the planet and leave it forever shrouded in toxic clouds. It could happen if we don't get our heads out of our behinds and take large steps to reverse global warming trends.

Answer 5

Maybe. But Mars is only half the size of Earth and so could never have been truly Earth like. It may have been more Earth like than it is now, but never truly similar to Earth. And I suspect that Earth will never be truly Mars like for the same reason.

Answer 6

Mars is much smaller than the Earth, with weaker gravity and no magnetic field to protect it from solar storms, so I doubt that Earth will ever lose most of it's air & water into space and become like Mars.

Answer 7

Mars was I think the first planet to have liquid water running. We can still see the dried river...Earth is not going to just like Mars but similar...although there might be something else going on in Mars at that time....hmmmmmm.....

Answer 8

I honestly don't believe that it could, as the human body has homeostasis, the earth has a form of homeostasis also which is provided by and oxygen rich atmosphere, unless this atmosphere was to become compromised more than it is at the moment, at an extremely high rate, than no its not going to become like mars

Answer 9

Some scientists believe that Mars may have been a lot like Earth, but there is no way to prove thisi personally believe that no Mars was not inhabitable like Earth is.

Answer 10

Some scientists think this will happen. The molten rock in the earth which causes our magnetic field is slowing down. Once our magnetic field is gone, the solar wind will begin to rip away the atmosphere. But this won't happen any time soon.