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Old 04-June-2007, 01:35 AM
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But as far as i know Venus has no magnetic field, and is exposed to a greater solar wind than Earth and Mars and yet keeps a thick atmosphere of carbon-dioxide and other gases?

As to the loss of atmospheric gases on Mars due to the loss of it's magnetic field, I believe the current theory is this took millions of years and the periodic magnetic pole swaps on earth may last a thousand years at most, (not enough time to loose an atmosphere).
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