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Missing Magnetic Field
A team of researchers believe a large asteroid circling the planet set up a gravitational tug-of-war that got Mars' core churning. Eventually, the asteroid crashed into its parent planet and the planet's core lost its momentum, killing off the magnetic field. | View More Images From Phoenix |
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