The Red Planet's low gravity and lack of magnetic field makes its outermost Atmosphere an easy target to be swept away by the solar wind, but new evidence from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows that the Sun's radiation may play a surprising role in its escape. Terrestrial planet magnetospheres [Credit: European Space Agency]Why the atmospheres of the rocky planets in the inner solar system evolved so differently over 4.6 billion...

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