Giant Waves of Solar Wind May Have Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere, New Study Finds The latest study on Mars' atmosphere has shed new light on the Red Planet's transformation from a potentially habitable world to its current desolate state.
Researchers have long been puzzled by how Mars lost its thick atmosphere, and the findings published in Science Advances offer a compelling explanation: giant waves of solar wind that swept through the planet's magnetic field, stripping away its atmospheric particles.
The study relied on simultaneous measurements from NASA's MAVEN and China's Tianwen 1 spacecraft.