‘We are all Martians!’: space explorers seek to solve the riddle of life on Mars0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2020
With the red planet’s launch window about to open, the US, China and the UAE are all sending craft to look for answers
With the red planet’s launch window about to open, the US, China and the UAE are all sending craft to look for answers
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Scientists have identified a green light in the atmosphere of Mars.
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But can it still dig?
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Using five years of magnetic field data obtained by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, a team of scientists has created the first-ever map of the electric current systems in the Martian induced magnetosphere. Their results appear in the journal Nature Astronomy.