Science Cafe: Magnetism on Mars & Space Weather | East Bay

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CANCELLED: East Bay Science Cafe | Albany

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The East Bay Science Cafe is an informal forum for discussing interesting and relevant scientific issues and is held on the first Wednesday of every month at Cafe Valparaiso in Albany.

Join a casual evening of conversation with members of the scientific community presenting different topics each time and encouraging audience questions during and after the event.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Magnetism on Mars | CANCELLED: East Bay Science Cafe | Albany

Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a global scale magnetic field. However, it does have intense and localized crustal magnetic fields. Earth’s planet-wide magnetic field is thought to shield our atmosphere from the solar wind. Without such a shield, the solar wind has impacted the atmosphere of Mars over the past few billion years, substantially changing it.

Dr. Fillingim will discuss some of the recent ideas about the history of Mars’ magnetic field and how (and why) the atmosphere and climate of Mars has changed. He will also introduce the next mission to Mars, MAVEN, which launched last November, which is designed to decipher the atmospheric history of Mars.

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