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* Mars attacked by solar wind
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23 September 2004

The solar wind has a much bigger impact on Mars than previously thought according to the first results from the ASPERA-3 instrument on Mars Express. Rickard Lundin of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and an international team of co-workers have found that the solar wind -- a supersonic plasma of charged particles that flows from the Sun -- can penetrate deep into the atmosphere of Mars. One consequence of this is that water and other volatile molecules could escape from the planet (R Lundin et al. 2004 Science 305 1933).
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. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/8/9/14/1/040914

Solar wind atmospheric erosion at Mars:
Planetary wind is the outflow of atmosphere and ionosphere (the layer above the atmosphere). ASPERA performs global imaging and in situ measurements of:
1.Inflowing solar wind
2.Outflowing planetary wind
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jane i think solar winds was one of the first games i ever played on a computer 040928