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Take a look at Mar’s eerie nightglow – Tech Explorist
Every night on Mars, when the sun sets and temperatures fall to minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit and below, an eerie phenomenon spreads across much of the planet’s sky: a soft glow created by chemical reactions occurring tens of miles above the surface.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has mapped the planet’s nightglow in greater detail than ever before. This nightglow ebbs and flows over Mars’ seasons. The group also discovered something unusual: an unexpectedly bright spot that appears in the planet’s atmosphere just above its equator.
LASP’s Nick Schneider, the lead author of the new study, said, “Mars, in other words, still has a few surprises in store for scientists. The behavior of the Martian atmosphere i…
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