article_snippet.sent: Doctor Morten Bo Madsen, associate professor and head of the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark measurements from the Curiosity rover's weather monitoring station show that these conditions exist at night and just after sunrise in the winter. '
article_snippet.sent: However, Dr Madsen added that it is not likely that life will be found on Mars as it is too dry, too cold and the cosmic radiation is so powerful that the cosmic radiation penetrates at least one metre into the surface and kills all life - at least life as we know the cosmic radiation on Earth.
article_snippet.sent: Currents of liquid iron in the Earth’s interior generate the magnetic fields and Currents of liquid iron in the Earth’s interior act as a shield that protects us from cosmic radiation.
article_snippet.sent: The magnetic field protects the Earth’s atmosphere against degradation from energy rich particles from the sun.
article_snippet.sent: But Mars no longer has a global magnetic field and this means that the atmosphere is not protected from radiation from the sun, so the solar particles (protons) simply ‘shoot’ the atmosphere out into space little by little.
highlights_snippet.sent: it is 'not likely' to exist due to planet's harsh conditions .
  