NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft captures breathtaking pictures of Mars' Night Sky, See

According to NASA, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution team were also kwn as MAVEN team, was stunned when y saw that Martian atmosphere was pulsing exactly, three times per night. So far this peculiar phemen only occurred during Mars’ spring and fall seasons. NASA has claimed that new data collected by MAVEN also showed unexpected waves and spirals over Mars’ winter poles. MAVEN observed that this stunning phemen was more prounced and brightest over winter polar regions.

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NASA’s MAVEN observes ultraviolet light in Mars’ Atmosphere

According to NASA, Nick Schneider, from University of Coloro's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Physics also kwn as LASP, in Boulder, Coloro revealed that se MAVEN ims offer first global insights into atmospheric motions in Mars. This time MAVEN particularly captured se motions in Mars’ middle atmosphere, which is a critical region for air currents which carry gases between lowest and highest layers. As per pictures snapped by MAVEN, ultraviolet brightening occurs where vertical winds carry gases down to regions of higher density.

Source: NASA

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This movement speeds up chemical reactions that create nitric oxide and power ultraviolet glow. NASA’s official website revealed that Nick Schneider is instrument le for MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) instrument. IUVS was instrument that me se stunning observations. Schneider is also le author of a paper on this research appearing August 6 in Journal of Geophysical Research, Physics. 

Source: NASA

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What do we kw about Ultraviolet light?

Ultraviolet light is invisible to human eye but it is detectable by specialised instruments. NASA’s official website mentioned that ultraviolet glow comes mostly from an altitude of about 70 kilometres or approximately 40 miles, brightest spot is about a thousand kilometres or approximately 600 miles across. According to NASA, se ultraviolet rays are like Earth’s rrn lights.

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Will NASA Astronauts who go to Mars in future be able to see it?

According to NASA, composition of Mars’ atmosphere won’t let se bright spots emit light at visible wavelengths. Hence, future NASA Astronauts arriving at Mars won’t be able to see it. bright patches would intensify overhe every night after sunset, and drift across sky at 300 kilometres per hour or about 180 miles per hour.