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Space, the final frontier

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Mars died billions of years ago, and its guts are still spilling into space (www.popsci.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did Mars have had a magnetic field? And how relevant would it be for Earth-like life?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago
  1. Probably yes.
  2. Extremely. No magnetic field = no sustainable atmosphere due to solar wind.