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1 posted on 10/22/2017 10:43:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Official scientific term for the red planet’s large magnetic tail: Marsdashian.


2 posted on 10/22/2017 10:47:32 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (Veritas Vincit)
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Interesting! Thanks for posting! BL


3 posted on 10/22/2017 11:06:17 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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5 posted on 10/22/2017 11:43:54 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: BenLurkin
There's probably a tail behind Uranus, too.


Well, dang it, somebody had to cheapen the thread with infantile humor!

6 posted on 10/22/2017 11:45:51 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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It’s the magnetic tail left behind when starship Phobos was maneuvered into position!


8 posted on 10/22/2017 12:35:43 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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the unusual phenomenon is thought to have been caused by the effects of the solar winds

HERE is the REAL cause.


9 posted on 10/22/2017 12:41:53 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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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.


10 posted on 10/22/2017 1:56:30 PM PDT by Wuli
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