# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/3RTgaHIaF2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11737476-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-05-29T15:11:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

For the first time, an international team of scientists have predicted that colorful, glowing aurorae can be seen by the naked eye on a terrestrial planet other than Earth — Mars. Visible Martian aurorae were confirmed in March 2015 by the our MAVEN mission, which completed 1,000 orbits around the red planet on April 6, 2015.

The Planeterella simulates aurorae using a magnetic field, charged particles and a sphere. For this study, they replaced the terrestrial atmospheric gas with CO2, the major component of the Martian atmosphere, and then created a discharge in a vacuum similar to Mars’ upper atmosphere. 
Credits: D. Bernard/IPAG — CNRS

#mars #space #nasa #aurora #maven #esa #science

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