Talk:Earth's magnetic field

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message: The sentence "Calculations of the loss of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere of Mars, resulting from scavenging of ions by the solar wind, indicate that the dissipation of the magnetic field of Mars caused a near total loss of its atmosphere." from the "Significance" section is obsolete (from 1992).
This article Atmospheric Escape states that the vast majority of atmospheric stripping on Mars is/was caused by other processes not related to the magnetic field at all.
This is properly supported by the MAVEN mission to Mars the paper to which is cited in reference 15 https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.icarus.2018.05.030.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E5:F10:FE05:F556:C879:F05D:D6E (talk) 16:57, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that there seems to be something missing in the most common explanation.  Wikipedia articles are intended to be based mostly on paraphrasing reliable secondary sources.  The sources that you propose seem to be mainly primary sources.  Wikipedia editors do not have the competence to say that it is time to discard the old explanation and take up the new explanation.  If the new explanation takes hold and filters down to reliable secondary sources, then we can paraphrase those sources.  It does not belong in the introductory section of the article.  However, I would have no objection to adding a section about recent new explanations.  Constant314 (talk) 00:09, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request removal of outdated passage about Mars's atmosphere