Subject: Global Auroras Light Up Mars! Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:27 pm
This happened around the same time I was seeing those redpurple skies. At some point it became less, till almost normal, but it's not completely gone. Still seeing it on some nights, though not as strong as when I first wrote about it.
"Mars is experiencing its greatest level of auroral activity in the past 10 years," says Nick Schneider of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). "In February alone, there were three episodes of global auroras--an 'aurora hat trick' we've never seen before."
Orbiting high above Mars, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft recorded the auroras on 3-4 Feb, 7-10 Feb and 15-16 Feb. This animation shows the last two of these episodes in a looping time series:
Thu May 16, 2024 9:11 pm by 
Subject: Global Auroras Light Up Mars! 
