NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in green in the first viewing of an aurora from any planetary surface other ...

This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible spectrum.

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Scientists used cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover to capture unprecedented views of the Red Planet's green glowing sky ...

For the first time, scientists have captured the visible green lights of an aurora from the surface of Mars. The spectacle shined uniformly across the whole Martian night sky, distinct from the way ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time ... aurora from any planetary surface other than Earth. Scientists said the aurora occurred on March ...

Perseverance has two instruments that are sensitive to wavelengths in the visible range ... An aurora forms on Mars the same way as on Earth, with energetic charged particles colliding with ...

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora would show up ...

On Earth, auroras form when solar particles ... Knutsen et al, Detection of visible-wavelength aurora on Mars, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads1563 ...

This is not only the first detection of visible light aurorae on Mars, it is also the first detection of any type of aurora from the ground on a planetary body other than Earth. The observation ...

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by. The moon will appear to skip over Mars between the nights ...