March 6, 2017 05:02 am -05

NASA proposes guarding Mars' atmosphere with a magnetic shield

Ask scientists why Mars is cold and dead and they'll usually point to the death of its magnetic field some 4.2 billion years ago. Without that protection, solar winds gradually stripped it of most of its atmosphere. A NASA-led team, however, thinks t...

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