Exploring Auroras on Mars
Auroras are caused by high-speed charged particles entering planetary atmospheres. Protons and electrons are emitted by the Sun in the solar wind, and some of these ions collide with atoms […]
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A Solution to Saturn’s Energy Crisis
The gas giants of our solar system are so far from the Sun that they should have cold atmospheres. However, the upper atmosphere of Saturn (and the other gas giants) […]
NASA Spacecraft Get a 360-Degree View of Saturn’s Auroras
NASA trained several pairs of eyes on Saturn as the planet put on a dancing light show at its poles. While NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able […]