New discoveries on the Red Planet have raised more questions about what catastrophe could have destroyed Mars’ magnetosphere.
New research published last month in Nature Astronomy may finally reveal more information about Mars’ catastrophic history. One of the biggest goals of the new research was to discover more about what happened to Mars’ magnetosphere, which many believe vanished sometime in the planet’s past.
This latest research relies heavily on data captured by NASA’s Insight Lander, as well as China’s Zhurong Martian Rover. The data that these two spacecraft have captured point towards some intriguing discoveries, including the fact that the Martian planet has small pockets of magnetism of varying magnitudes in different places.
