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For The First Time, We Can See Patterns of an Eerie Glow in The Martian Atmosphere – ScienceAlert
When the Sun sets in a blaze of blue and night falls over the dusty plains of Mars, something weird and wonderful occurs. High up above the surface, the atmosphere begins to glow with an ultraviolet light, sometimes pulsing, as nitrogen and oxygen co
When the Sun sets in a blaze of blue and night falls over the dusty plains of Mars, something weird and wonderful occurs. High up above the surface, the atmosphere begins to glow with an ultraviolet light, sometimes pulsing, as nitrogen and oxygen combine into nitric oxide.
This invisible glow, first revealed by the Mars Orbiter mission in 2005, has now been characterised in detail – and its surprising behaviour is revealing how the Martian atmosphere circulates and changes over the course of t…
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