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4.5 billion Mars reaches the same solar flux as that of the Earth when it first formed 4.5 billion years ago from today. [97] < 5 billion The Andromeda Galaxy will have fully merged with the Milky Way, forming an elliptical galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda". [100] There is also a small chance of the Solar System being ejected.
At least two-thirds of Mars' surface is more than 3.5 billion years old, and it could have been habitable 4.48 billion years ago, 500 million years before the earliest known Earth lifeforms; [4] Mars may thus hold the best record of the prebiotic conditions leading to life, even if life does not or has never existed there. [5] [6]
Pre-Noachian: the interval from the accretion and differentiation of the planet about 4.5 billion years ago to the formation of the Hellas impact basin, between 4.1 and 3.8 Gya. [13] Most of the geologic record of this interval has been erased by subsequent erosion and high impact rates.
The bottom of the Jezero Crater – believed to have formed 3.9 billion years ago from a massive impact – is considered to be among the most promising areas on Mars to search for evidence of ...
A 2023 study shows evidence, based on the orbital inclination of Deimos (a small moon of Mars), that Mars may once have had a ring system 3.5 billion years to 4 billion years ago. [32] This ring system may have been formed from a moon, 20 times more massive than Phobos, orbiting Mars billions of years ago; and Phobos would be a remnant of that ...
Scientists look forward to an up-close examination of Jerezo's sediments - thought to have formed some 3 billion years ago - in samples collected by Perseverance for future transport to Earth.
The lunar cratering record suggests that the rate of impacts in the Inner Solar System 4000 million years ago was 500 times higher than today. [44] During the Noachian, about one 100-km diameter crater formed on Mars every million years, [ 3 ] with the rate of smaller impacts exponentially higher.
While meteorites in the same family as NWA 7635 were all dated about 500 million years old — meaning they were formed from cooling magma on the surface of Mars circa half a billion years ago ...