Earth's Atmosphere Being Blown Away, After All?

Submitted by eDave on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 13:59

Earth's Atmosphere Being Blown Away, After All?

Well, this was interesting. Alarming, too, at least at first. It seems that our magnetic field isn't protecting our atmosphere from the solar wind as much as we thought. In fact, our atmosphere is being carried off at a rate faster than that of either Mars or Venus. (!) It seems we have plenty for a long, long time, but still...

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/02/solar-wind-atmosphere.html

Well, this was interesting. Alarming, too, at least at first. It seems that our magnetic field isn't protecting our atmosphere from the solar wind as much as we thought. In fact, our atmosphere is being carried off at a rate faster than that of either Mars or Venus. (!) It seems we have plenty for a long, long time, but still...

Click the title for the link.

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