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The Different Compositions of Mars's Core

Mars and Earth are both mostly iron, but Mars's core has about twice as many light elements in it as Earth's core does. Different compositions reflect how the cores were formed and the building blocks they were formed from as our planets grew. There are probably multiple different things which have meant that Mars doesn't have a magnetic field today, but Earth does.

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