Mars Atmosphere Stripped by Solar Wind Waves, New Study Finds
Published in Science Advances on July 31, 2026, a new study reveals that giant Kelvin-Helmholtz waves generated by solar wind scrape across Mars’s upper atmosphere, tearing away ionized gas in massive burst-mode events with ion escape rates 10 to 100 times higher than the two steady-state channels scientists have measured for years, as discovered by … Read more