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Why is only half of Mars magnetized?

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Re: Why is only half of Mars magnetized?

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post #10

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Without knowing all that much, I know that Earth was much more massive than Mars even before Theia impacted. I assume with the extra energy available, it would be much more likely to melt all the crust. Also, our plate tectonics is still going on, so any evidence of a thin area of crust would be erased by now.

also it's interesting that the crust of the moon have differences between far and near side. I read somewhere that this could be explained very easily with a low speed impact of a second small moon when the moon was very young.

There was a recent paper proposing that the near side of the moon looks melted because the surface of the Earth was temporarily about as bright as the sun for a while after the impact.

Re: Why is only half of Mars magnetized?

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post #23

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Like your comment ;P

I was actually interested in a serious answer, since I don't tend to need to read textbooks.

I find learning from textbooks is more difficult then learning in an open forum discussion or not confined to the strict teachings usually provided by textbooks
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