Giant Waves Discovered Sweeping Mars' Atmosphere into Space

New research, utilizing data from NASA's MAVEN and China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft, reveals that the solar wind is stripping away Mars' atmosphere by creating massive rolling waves along its outer edge. These Kelvin-Helmholtz waves form plasma clouds that carry atmospheric particles into space, a process concentrated on one side of the planet. This mechanism may have played a significant role in the drying out of Mars, which was once potentially habitable.