Published Jul 23, 2026, 11:19 AM ET · Updated 4 months ago · 1 source
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 […]