Magnetized Mars: Transformation of Earth-like magnetosphere to Venus-like induced magnetosphere

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May 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008p%26ss...56..823k&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, Volume 56, Issue 6, p. 823-827.

Computer Science

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Using a global numerical model, we have studied how the present Martian magnetosphere may have looked in the past when the planet had a global intrinsic magnetic field. A Mars version (HYB-Mars) of the self-consistent quasi-neutral hybrid model was used which treats the ions as particles and the electrons as a massless charge-neutralizing fluid. We compare four cases where an intrinsic dipole magnetic field was 0 nT (the present situation), 10, 30, and 60 nT at the surface of Mars along the magnetic equator. We find that the 10 nT dipolar magnetic field already results in a magnetosphere which in many respects is more Earth-like than, a non-magnetized, “induced” magnetosphere. However, the 10 nT dipole magnetosphere is still relatively strongly connected to the interplanetary magnetic field, while the 30 nT dipole case, and especially the 60 nT dipole case, results in a magnetosphere whose morphology is determined predominantly by the Martian intrinsic magnetic field. A change of the magnetosphere due to a decreasing dipole magnetic field strength from 60 to 0 nT could have happened during the history of Mars when a globally magnetized Mars turned into the present, globally non-magnetized, planet.

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