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For how long? Won't the lack of a global magnetosphere on Mars make that a relatively short term "fix"?
by huxley 10y ago
For how long? Won't the lack of a global magnetosphere on Mars make that a relatively short term "fix"?
- cgriswald 10y agoFor hundreds of millions of years if not billions. It takes a long time for the solar wind to push that amount of gas away from a place with gravity even in the absence of a magnetic field.
- noselasd 10y agoThe rate a lack of magnetosphere causes your atmosphere to be stripped away is in the order of hundreds of millions years.