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Two billion years ago, snowball Earth was defrosted in huge asteroid crash – and it's been downhill ever since

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Re: Idea

"Because Mars is smaller than Earth, the escape velocity is higher"

Good analysis, but in the sentence above, surely escape velocity on Mars is LOWER than Earth's?

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