Solar flares: Be glad you're on Earth, not Mars

[Kimberley]

The recent solar flares provide a dramatic backdrop for a study that shows Mars gets far more of its atmosphere stripped away by solar storms than does Earth. Thank you, magnetosphere.

By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / March 8, 2012 CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0308/Solar-flares-Be-glad-you-re-on-Earth-not-Mars