Tuesday, 3 April 2018

Water may have killed Mars’ magnetic field

Water may have killed Mars’ magnetic field

Mars’ missing magnetic field may have drowned in the planet’s core. An excess of hydrogen, split off from water molecules and stored in the Martian mantle, could have shut down convection, switching the magnetic field off forever, planetary scientist Joseph O’Rourke proposed March 21 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

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