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Published online 21 February 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030217-11
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Beckham in for a surprise on Mars
Putting spin on a ball would send it swerving the wrong way on the red planet.
If a future interplanetary soccer competition is held on Mars, even David Beckham will struggle to bend the ball into the net, a new study suggests. Swedish physicists have found that a spinning ball would swerve in the opposite direction to the way it goes on Earth in the low-pressure atmosphere of the red planet.
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