Wednesday, 15 October 2014

NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere

Ultraviolet Views of Martian Atmosphere



NASA's MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars sees a solar-particle storm, gets ultraviolet images of tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas, and yields a map of variable ozone.










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