martian night sky

NASA has confirmed the first-ever visible green aurora on Mars, detected by the Perseverance rover over Jezero Crater. This groundbreaking observation, resulting from a coronal mass ejection, opens new avenues for studying the interaction between the Sun and Mars' atmosphere. Unlike Earth's auroras, the Martian aurora uniformly lights up the entire sky.

The lander blasted off aboard a Delta II rocket in a flawless launch that illuminated the dark night sky.

The Curiosity rover, which has been studying Martian soil at Gale Crater, is expected to remain largely unaffected by the dust. While Opportunity is powered by sunlight, which is blotted out by dust at its current location, Curiosity has a nuclear-powered battery that runs day and night.

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning twilight images of Martian clouds, revealing iridescent red and green tinges. These noctilucent clouds, consisting of water-ice and carbon-dioxide ice, appear higher in the atmosphere and are especially noted for their 'mother-of-pearl' iridescence. Curiosity's ongoing observations aim to unravel why these clouds occur in specific Martian regions.

The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics, noted that aurora on the Earth are commonly seen as colourful displays of light in the night sky near the polar regions. However, the researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in the US, said the phenomenon on Mars, called a proton aurora, happens during the day and gives off ultraviolet light.

A recent international study reveals that the Mars' iconic red hue is likely due to the iron mineral ferrihydrite, which requires water to form. This suggests Mars had a wetter, more habitable past. By analyzing Martian dust, scientists gain insight into the planet's historical climate conditions.

AHMEDABAD/VADODARA: If the overcast skies prevented you from checking out the fabled Martians with green bodies and antennae, when the Red Planet came closest to earth on Wednesday afternoon - being just 55.76 million km away - take heart.

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignment peaks on January 25 and Mercury joins the display by late February, making it a total of seven visible planets till mid-March.

Named after the Roman god of war, the planet Mars is the third brightest object in the night sky and has been known to us since antiquity.

BANGALORE: Fluorescent green and orange bursts of hazy colour, aquamarine blue speckled with red, hour-glass shaped smoky masses of glass clouds and planetary nebulae.

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Elon Musk envisions humanity's future on Mars, driven by the need to safeguard civilization from Earth's existential threats. SpaceX's Starship and Starbase are pivotal in realizing this vision, aiming for a self-sustaining Martian city of a million people. Despite challenges like radiation and communication delays, Musk remains committed to making humanity a multiplanetary species.

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The Northern Lights recently adorned the UK skies, displaying their most powerful spectacle since May. The aurora borealis occurs when solar particles collide with Earth's atmosphere, influenced by the solar cycle. Best viewed in the auroral zone, these breath-taking phenomena can also be seen on other planets with magnetic fields.

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