The MGS Magnetometer found the Southern Hemisphere of Mars to contain sunken, crustal magnetic fields. They are the remains of a dead, internally generated field. Blue and red areas represent equal-strength fields running in opposite directions. These roughly East-West arrangements are typical of Earth, too. Click to enlarge.

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