NASA’s MAVEN illuminates new understanding of auroras on Mars – NASA Science0

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• July 23, 2026

Scientists on NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission have discovered a key piece of the puzzle in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, discovering that they form similarly to terrestrial auroras.Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show that the same mechanism that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth’s atmosphere is happening