Making a Magnetosphere for Mars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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How Much Does Solar Wind Affect Particles?
In the thin amosphere, especially its highest layers, things are so spread out that particles are able to move long distances and times without running into each other. So they can keep getting hit by photons or extra terestrial particles and build up speed. Interestingly, you get a higher amount of loss close to the equator, as earths spin adds to particle velocity in the same way it does for spaceships. And also solar wind. As solar wind is principally composed of ultra hot ironized hydrogen particles escaping out the sun's surface at hundreds of kilometers per second. A fast rocket aimed at earth is not escaping from it, no matter how fast though some of its vaporized atoms might
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