Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to re: active geyser vs passive spot

Mars does not have a bipolar magnetosphere

Unlike Earth, Venus, and the Gas giants, Mars does not have an active and dominantly bipolar magnetosphere as a result of an internal geodynamo.

Instead it has a patchy magnetic field, as measured by recent spacecraft.

There is NO polar concentration of charged particles.

Therefore your model fails.

As I often say, Mars is NOT Earthlike, it is Mars-like. You have to understand the physics of the planet before you try to use it to explain observations. Transplanting what works on Earth to Mars simply does not work...

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