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mjklin
on July 3, 2015
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Compasses don't work on Mars, so how do you naviga...
Wouldn't they be held by surface tension?
stephengillie
on July 3, 2015
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Surface tension is magnetic attraction between molecules. There's not enough negative magnetic attraction to hold them; they're repelled by all the other molecule nuclei.
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