Solar winds may have caused Mars to lose its atmosphere, according to a computer simulation study that confirms the long-held belief that planets need a protective magnetic field to block harmful radiation to life to maintain. While factors such as the presence of a moderately warm, humid atmosphere and melting water determine whether a planet can produce life, the study, published in the Royal Astronomical Society’s Monthly Releases, revealed that near the ability of planets to generate magnetic fields around them is observed. According to scientists, Arnab Basak and Dibyendu Nandi from the Indian Institutes for Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, these magnetic fields orbiting planets can act as a protective shadow, protecting the atmosphere from plasma winds. the very speed of the sun.
On Earth, they said, geo-dynamo equipment generates the planet’s protective magnetosphere – an invisible shield that stops the sun’s wind from eroding away from our atmosphere.
In the current study, the scientists simulated two situations of the Red Planet – one considering a young Mars with its incomplete magnetosphere, and the other with the planet without this force field.
The symbols showed that the magnetosphere in the young Mars may have been a shield that stopped the solar wind from coming too close to the planet ‘s atmosphere and thus protecting it.
In the absence of a sexual magnetosphere, the researchers said that the solar wind’s magnetic field may have first orbited, and slipped past Mars, carrying pieces of the planet’s atmosphere away, and eroding. completely finally.
They said the findings confirm the belief that the magnetospheres around planets play a crucial role in determining their ability to sustain life.
On the other hand, planets that eventually lose their magnetic field become unstable with the loss of the atmosphere, the scientists said. The researchers believe the study has important implications for the detection of arable exoplanets through missions such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ISO’s ExoWorlds mission.
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