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NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars

The findings have implications for understanding Mars' atmospheric dynamics and interactions with the solar wind.

NASA23 Jul 20261 min read
NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
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NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras. Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show the same mechanism that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth’s atmosphere is happening at […]

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