Mars as an Exoplanet: Lessons from a Planet at the Edge of Habitability

arXiv:2605.18949 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-05-18 · Read on arXiv

Stephen R. Kane, Paul K. Byrne, Skylar D'Angiolillo, Michelle L. Hill, Emma L. Miles, David A. Brain, Shannon M. Curry, Joana R. C. Voigt

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-05-18

Comments: 23 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in the Planetary Science Journal

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Microlensing — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Spectral Signature — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptive Optics (AO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dynamical regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• EMMA — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Habitable Worlds Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Habitable Zone — 1× in this paper
• Inner Working Angle — 1× in this paper
• Large Interferometer For Exoplanets — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Strategic Research — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transmission spectroscopy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Atmospheric Escape Rates from Mars - If it Orbited an Old M-Dwarf Star
• Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM): The Lower Size Limit for Atmosphere Retention in the Habitable Zone
• Habitable World Discovery and Characterization: Coronagraph Concept of Operations and Data Post-Processing
• Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. V. Detection Rates of Multiplanetary Systems in High Magnification Microlensing Events
• Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. IV. Lens Mass and Distance Measurements
• The LUVOIR Mission Concept Study Final Report
• OGLE-IV: Fourth Phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment

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