Posted on 10/22/2017 10:43:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Discovered by the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) spacecraft, the unusual phenomenon is thought to have been caused by the effects of the solar winds and could help to shine more light on how the Martian atmosphere escaped in to space.
"We found that Mars' magnetic tail, or magnetotail, is unique in the Solar System," said NASA scientist Gina DiBraccio. "It's not like the magnetotail found at Venus, a planet with no magnetic field of its own, nor is it like Earth's, which is surrounded by its own internally generated magnetic field."
"Instead, it is a hybrid between the two."
(Excerpt) Read more at unexplained-mysteries.com ...
Official scientific term for the red planet’s large magnetic tail: Marsdashian.
Interesting! Thanks for posting! BL
I was about to make a comment along similar lines but you not only beat me to it, you out-succincted me. Congrats!
Well, dang it, somebody had to cheapen the thread with infantile humor!
Will Wonders Never Cease!
It’s the magnetic tail left behind when starship Phobos was maneuvered into position!
HERE is the REAL cause.
Mars may just have a liquid metal core that is simply much smaller than earth’s and thus projects a magnetosphere that while not absent like Venus is more diffuse than the earth’s due to greater effects of the solar wind on the smaller magnetosphere.
Yep his PL259 modulator is causing it.
Are you talking about Barsoom’s Boom-Boom?
LOL! It’s up, Uranus!
Bill Clinton, upon hearing this news of tail on Mars just signed up for the first spaceship.
Thanks BenLurkin.
I'm running out of gas a little here, otherwise I'd post some related topic links (Venus has a tail, the Moon has a tail, etc).
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