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If eddy mixing is about as effective on Mars as it is on Earth, then there seems to be less nitrogen present on Mars than we would expect if terrestrial-type outgassing were the source. However, in this event a nonthermal escape mechanism involving the predissociation of exospheric nitrogen can be invoked to explain the low nitrogen concentration.
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R. T. Brinkmann (1971) studied this question.
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