SpaceGizmodoabout 3 hours ago
Solar Wind Waves Stripped Mars Atmosphere
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Solar wind stirs Mars' atmosphere into giant Kelvin-Helmholtz waves that carry atmospheric particles into space, a new study in Science Advances finds. Researchers used NASA's MAVEN and China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft to identify this mechanism, which explains how Mars lost its thick atmosphere.
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