On March 18, 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover, which usually examines rocks on Mars’ surface, tilted its camera upward. The planet’s entire sky glowed a soft green, and the rover snapped an image of ...

Astronomers have reported an incredible new observation: Mars not only has the bizarre proton aurorae that have been detected from orbit, it also has green aurorae like those here on Earth, generated ...

For the first time ever, a layer of glowing, green oxygen has been found in the atmosphere of the red planet, Mars. It's a glow that astronauts aboard the International Space Station sometimes see ...

Something new for the Martian tourist brochures: You might get to see auroras. In March 2024, for the first time, scientists observed a visible green aurora on Mars. Although scientists had already ...

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The first image in visible light of green auroras on Mars (left), compared to the night sky of Mars without auroras. NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / SSI On March 18, 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover, ...

Scientists now believe that they have the tools to predict an aurora’s green glow in the night sky above Mars. Today in Helsinki, Finland, planetary scientist Elise Wright Knutsen of the University of ...