Mystery AtlasSerpentinization Methane Theory
The leading non-biological explanation for Martian methane: a chemical reaction between iron- and magnesium-rich rock and liquid water that produces hydrogen, which further reactions can convert into methane.
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Serpentinization Methane Theory attempts to explain Mars Methane Mystery.
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Serpentinization Methane Theory is based on Water on Mars — Serpentinization requires liquid water interacting with rock, tying the methane source hypothesis to the same subsurface-water evidence studied on the water-on-Mars page.