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Was Mars a friendly planet for water, even life, in its ancient past? Huge channel networks run across its surface. Rocks ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in ...
The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...
Astronomers have captured visible auroras dazzling the skies above Mars — and they're unlike anything we can see on Earth.
Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...
On May 12, weather-station equipment on NASA's Curiosity rover (pictured 2021) recorded a high temperature of 11 degrees ...
This was the first time an aurora had been reported from the surface of a planet other than Earth, the researchers noted.
Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky. Now there's a ...
JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.
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Mars Sample Return now! (op-ed)
The results will be worth the effort and the cost, not just in understanding the world around us in general but also in ...
This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future ...
What if billions of years ago, the Red Planet had rain, snow, and even rivers that carved out landscapes much like those we ...