Mars shimmering auroras captured by UAE spacecraft A high-altitude orbit around the red planet offered a global view.
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When barrages of charged protons and electrons erupt from the sun head our way, Earth s magnetic field deftly deflects them around the planet. This buffeting generates shimmering, glowing curtains of color known as the aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere s polar regions, and aurora australis in the south.
That same phenomenon happens on Mars, too. But there it is not just the northern lights and southern lights, but also the equatorial lights, mid-latitude lights, eastern lights, western lig
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UAE s Hope spacecraft snaps Mars glowing auroras
UAE s Hope spacecraft snaps Mars glowing auroras
Last Updated: Mon, Jul 5th, 2021, 11:20:15hrs
Abu Dhabi, July 5 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Hope Mars Mission has snapped the most detailed pictures yet of the discrete nightside auroras of the Red Planet, which scientists have struggled to study for decades.
The ultraviolet emissions arise when solar wind runs into magnetic fields that emanate from Mars s crust. Charged particles then collide with oxygen in the upper atmosphere, causing it to glow, Nature reported.
The mission, also called the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), is the first uncrewed, interplanetary satellite by the UAE.
Spectacular : Scientists on Mars glowing auroras captured by UAE s Hope Mission
The mission, also called the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), is the first uncrewed, interplanetary satellite by the UAE
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Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Hope Mars Mission has snapped the most detailed pictures yet of the discrete nightside auroras of the Red Planet, which scientists have struggled to study for decades.
The ultraviolet emissions arise when solar wind runs into magnetic fields that emanate from Mars s crust. Charged particles then collide with oxygen in the upper atmosphere, causing it to glow, Nature reported.
The mission, also called the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), is the first uncrewed, interplanetary satellite by the UAE. It arrived at Mars in
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Mars has auroras and a UAE spacecraft captured new pictures of themBy Kenneth Chang, New York Times
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There is not just the northern lights and southern lights like on Earth, but also the equatorial lights, mid-latitude lights, eastern lights, western lights all around the planet.
The Hope spacecraft, launched by the UAE and orbiting the red planet since February, has captured unique images of these dancing atmospheric lights, known as discrete auroras. (File Photo)
When barrages of charged protons and electrons erupted from the sun head our way, Earth’s magnetic field deftly deflects them around the planet. This buffeting generates shimmering, glowing curtains of color known as the aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere’s polar regions, and aurora australis in the south.