Today we learn scientists have discovered that something else we had accepted as a basic truth for a very long time is not true at all.
"One of the “basic truths” we all learned is that Earth’s atmosphere is “protected” from the solar wind by its magnetic field, unlike Mars which has lost most of its atmosphere due to the solar wind. But when some space scientists compared notes recently, they discovered something startling:
“We said, ‘Oh my goodness — what we’ve been telling people about the magnetic shield is not correct.’”
And so what we thought to be true about our atmosphere, isn’t. More unsettling science from Watts Up With That.
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