1. (a) Calculate thermal escape times for H, He, and H2O on Mars with exosphere temperatures of 210 K and 1000 K. Comment on the volatile history on Mars if transient events ever heated its exosphere to 1,000 K for 1 My (b)Why is the calculation

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