Not only been on Earth is visible aurorae, on the planet Mars is the phenomenon. That discovered the NASA satellite Maven.
Shortly before 25 December Maven took five days a bright aurora or aurora above the northern hemisphere of the red planet. Mars is the fourth planet with auroras. Earth, Jupiter and Saturn know the phenomenon well.
in 2005 saw the Hubble auroras on Saturn (© NASA / ESA)
On Mars enters the phenomenon a piece deeper in the atmosphere than on the earth. According to researchers at NASA’s probably because Mars, unlike Earth’s magnetic field has no more. That’s not the only difference: the aurora observed Maven, glowed in ultraviolet light
Another discovery
‘christmas light, “as the scientists called it. is not the only unexpected discovery of Maven. The satellite, which will study the atmosphere of Mars since September last year, also came against a mysterious cloud of dust in the atmosphere, at an altitude of between 150 and 300 kilometers.
What kind of fabric it is exactly, you know NASA yet. “When the dust comes from the Martian atmosphere, may mean that we have a fundamental process in the atmosphere of Mars miss,” said Laila Andersson of the University of Colorado
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