Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> A planetary magnetic field is not needed to protect life on the planet's
> surface, you only need a thick enough athmosphere.

However, a magnetic field may be needed to protect the /atmosphere/ itself.
Mars once had a much thicker atmosphere, and the going hypothesis is that it was
blown away by the solar wind after Mars' core solidified.

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