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Science 9 March 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5510, p. 1909
DOI: 10.1126/science.1059763
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Perspectives

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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Erosion by the Solar Wind

Rickard Lundin

The solar wind is very efficient at stripping volatiles out of planetary atmospheres, but estimates, for example, by Seki et al., indicate that Earth atmospheric losses are small. In his Perspective, Lundin discusses how the Earthlike planets differ in their interaction with the solar wind and why Earth has been able to retain its hydrosphere.

The author is in the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, 98128 Kiruna, Sweden. E-mail: rickard.Lundin{at}irf.se

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Solar Wind-Induced Atmospheric Erosion at Mars: First Results from ASPERA-3 on Mars Express.
R. Lundin, S. Barabash, H. Andersson, M. Holmstrom, A. Grigoriev, M. Yamauchi, J.-A. Sauvaud, A. Fedorov, E. Budnik, J.-J. Thocaven, et al. (2004)
Science 305, 1933-1936
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