Open AccessDoes Mars have a Magnetosphere?
Author(s) -
Wallis Max K.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0016-8009
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1975.tb01620.x
Subject(s) - exosphere , magnetosphere , mars exploration program , astrobiology , geophysics , solar wind , plasma , atmosphere (unit) , planet , mercury's magnetic field , ionization , physics , atmosphere of mars , interplanetary magnetic field , computational physics , atmospheric sciences , geology , astronomy , ion , meteorology , martian , quantum mechanics
Summary The space‐probe plasma and magnetic evidence for Mars having a significant dipole field is uncertain and contradictory. If ionization processes in the planet's exosphere are taken into account, several discrepancies between observation and the fluid model can be explained. The possibility that some solar plasma flows directly into the atmosphere and is there absorbed is still open.