Magnetic Fields Around NASA's Mars Lander Are 10 Times Stronger Than Scientists Expected

sciencealert.com ^ | 9 MARCH 2020 | MATT WILLIAMS, UNIVERSE TODAY

[davius]

Inasmuch as the lander is in a crater, the originating meteor could have introduced highly charged magnetic material unrelated to the planetary norm.

[Tellurian]

However, the earth has a magnetic field ...

https://www.earth.com/news/magnetic-field-solar-radiation/

" ... the magnetic field, which is generated by currents of molten iron from the Earth’s outer core. The field carries about one terawatt of power through its electric currents ... "

[DannyTN]

LOL, I was actually looking for the “Well get them blink in sequence” image before posting that.

[citizen]

I blame the Krell.

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Could be the Dwarves, if they ever left Middle Earth for Mars.

[citizen]

I tell ya, that horseless carriage is just a dang fool contraption that’s a waste of time and will never amount to anything.

[higgmeister]

Terraforming here we come!

[libh8er]

Iron in liquid form in the magma. Same way field is generated on Earth.

[Jeff Chandler]

Global Switching

[wastoute]

Ten times almost zero is still almost zero.

[ealgeone]

What I was thinking!

[Boogieman]

Mars is not volcanically active, so there doesn’t appear to be any molten magma left.

[rktman]

Don't let grrrrrreta hear of this.😵

[Raymann]

Hundreds of millions of rocks floating around our solar system...all we have to do is miss one of sufficient size and boom, we’re done. If not as a species then as a civilization.

Mars is the backup plan. Eventually it’ll be the frontier and finally another epicenter of humanity. Few things are as important.

[RinaseaofDs]

Mars lost its atmosphere a while back. Not sure Mars is a tenable solution. You’d be way better off living in the cloud layer above Venus.

That IS doable.

[GingisK]

I had a circuit board that picked up a little ceramic magnet from the workbench once. That sucker played hell on the micro controller.

[GingisK]

Space exploration by robot is the only sensible solution to quenching our thirst for knowledge.

I'm SOOOO glad you weren't around during the Westward expansion of our nation. The Spirit of Exploration nurtures humans.

[Swordmaker]

Iron in liquid form in the magma. Same way field is generated on Earth.

Sorry, iron in magma has not shown the ability to hold magnetic fields. Heat magnets and they lose magnetism. Magnetism comes from flowing electricity. You have to have flowing electrons in a circuit. The idea of Magma doing it is the theory the Gravity people have pushed, but they can’t prove it.

[libh8er]

Magnetism comes from flowing electricity. You have to have flowing electrons in a circuit

Not necessarily. Any moving charged particle creates a magnetic field, not just electrons. At that temperature there is no shortage of charged particles due to ionization.