The Red Planet’s low gravity and lack of magnetic field makes its outermost atmosphere an easy target to be swept away by the solar wind, but new evidence from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft shows that the Sun’s radiation may play a surprising role in its escape.
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Leaky_atmosphere_linked_to_lightweight_planet
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