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NASA Reveals New Mars Auroras Findings

Updated 2026-07-23 16:40 UTC 1 source Neutral

NASA’s MAVEN mission has discovered that certain types of auroras on Mars form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras. This finding provides new insights into the Martian atmosphere.

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NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars

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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