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Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky. Now there's a photo of one.
Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...
Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky phenomenon known as the aurora. The Mars rover Perseverance made history by ...
A NASA spacecraft spotted an eerie green light coming from Jupiter. The light is believed to be the glow from a bolt of lightning near the planet's north ... to NASA. The photo was released ...
The light comes from crackling lightning near the planet’s north pole ... It’s found mainly close to the poles. This photo was taken in December 2020 but released on Thursday this week.
The green orb seen in the photo was captured when Juno was just ... especially since Voyager 1 captured similar lightning flashes on the planet back in 1979. Those flashes were estimated to ...
The planet’s entire sky glowed a soft green, and the rover snapped an image ... Perseverance’s photo surprised some scientists, who had anticipated an image of an aurora to come from a ...