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NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars

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July 23, 2026 • 56 views
Original source: NASA

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...

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