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Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky. Now there's a ...
NASA's Mars rover makes history after capturing 'Northern Lights' for first time from another planet
In a historical moment, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured images of 'Northern lights' from another planet.
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNSee the First Visible Auroras Captured on Mars, Glowing a Hazy Green Above the PlanetScientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...
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Astronomy on MSNOur newest look at aurorae on Mars and JupiterJWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.
The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...
By commanding Perseverance to look up at just the right time, an explosion of green speckles was recorded on the rover’s cameras.
In March 2024, for the first time, scientists observed a visible green aurora on Mars. Although scientists had already detected many different types of auroras on Mars, they had all appeared at ...
This was the first time an aurora had been reported from the surface of a planet other than Earth, the researchers noted.
NASA said it's likely that if astronauts had been on the surface of Mars near the rover, they would have been able to see the glowing green lights. Original article source: Mars astronauts would be ...
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Digital Camera World on MSNMars doesn’t have magnetic poles – but the planet still has auroras. Mars rover captures the first-ever photo of the aurora on another planetMars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky ...
For the first time, scientists have captured the visible green lights of an aurora from the surface of Mars. The spectacle ...
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