Scientists just observed Mars' nightglow in the visible light spectrum for the very first time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Scientists have observed a fascinating green glow in the Martian night sky for the first time. The visible nightglow was detected in the atmosphere of the Red Planet by the European Space Agency's ...

A simulated view of what Mars' night sky might look like at its poles. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.– E. W. Knutsen The night sky at Mars' poles looks nothing like our own ...

Scientists just observed Mars' eerie green nightglow in the visible light spectrum for the very first time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Someday in the future, the first astronauts to explore the north and south poles of Mars may trek across the dusty ice by the eerie green light of oxygen atoms high in the Martian atmosphere. The ...

An aurora gently glowing in wavelengths visible to the human eye has been captured on Mars for the first time – and a robot was the only one to see it live. On 18 March 2024, as the night sky over ...

When those particles reached the planet, they triggered a rare aurora in Mars's upper atmosphere. Unlike past detections of Martian auroras, which appeared only in ultraviolet light and required ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission has detected a soft green glow in the night sky of Mars that is visible to the human eye for the first time. As the orbiter ...