The Perseverance rover is exploring Mars
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has noticed an aurora on Mars that might have been seen to people. This primary sighting of its sort means that future astronauts visiting the Purple Planet could possibly be in for a lightweight present.
Astronomers have noticed aurorae, the sunshine produced when particles or radiation hits a planet’s ambiance, on Mars since 2005, however all of those shows have solely been detected within the type of ultraviolet gentle, which is invisible to the bare human eye. These principally come from oxygen within the ambiance being energised by charged…