On the origin of aurorae on Mars

DA Brain, JS Halekas, LM Peticolas… - Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… [1] We report observations by Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) of thousands of peaked electron
energy spectra similar to terrestrial auroral electrons. They are observed on the Martian

Discovery of an aurora on Mars

JL Bertaux, F Leblanc, O Witasse, E Quemerais… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
… Here we report the discovery of an aurora in the martian atmosphere, using the ultraviolet
spectrometer SPICAM on board Mars Express. It corresponds to a distinct type of aurora not …

Discovery of diffuse aurora on Mars

NM Schneider, JI Deighan, SK Jain, A Stiepen… - Science, 2015 - science.org
… Diffuse auroras on Mars could therefore occur practically anywhere, and potentially nearly
everywhere, on the planet. The Mars diffuse aurora has much in common with auroras on

Origins of the Martian aurora observed by Spectroscopy for Investigation of Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars (SPICAM) on board Mars Express

F Leblanc, O Witasse, J Winningham… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… of the Martian environment in order to discern the origins of … on the needed characteristics
of the electron distribution in order to reproduce the SPICAM UVS observation of auroral

Prediction of blue, red and green aurorae at Mars

J Lilensten, D Bernard, M Barthélémy, G Gronoff… - Planetary and Space …, 2015 - Elsevier
… We also address the question on whether these emissions can be auroral, ie detectable
with the naked eyes. Detection with the naked eyes certainly means having humans at …

Auroras on mars: From discovery to new developments

D Atri, DB Dhuri, M Simoni, KR Sreenivasan - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
… and leads to several types of auroral emissions, which we will … In this paper, we will focus
on the observations of Martian … and Mars crustal magnetic fields on proton aurora occurrences …

Airglow and aurora in the Martian atmosphere: contributions by the Mars Express and ExoMars TGO missions

F González-Galindo, JC Gérard, L Soret… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
aurorae on the planet. We present here the most outstanding results collected by Mars Express
about aurorae… by other missions have complemented Mars Express and TGO results, and …

Sinuous Aurora at Mars: A Link to the Tail Current Sheet?

RJ Lillis, J Deighan, K Chirakkil, S Jain… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… We examine the newly discovered phenomena of sinuous aurora on the nightside of
Mars, using images of 130.4 and 135.6 nm oxygen emission measured by the Emirates …

Discovery of a proton aurora at Mars

J Deighan, SK Jain, MS Chaffin, X Fang, JS Halekas… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… In this study, we used the data from two instruments on board the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere
and Volatile EvolutioN) mission, which is dedicated to understanding the variability of the …

Global aurora on Mars during the September 2017 space weather event

NM Schneider, SK Jain, J Deighan… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mars exhibits at least three types of aurora. The SPICAM instrument on Mars Express
discovered discrete aurora… observed on Mars' nightside: CO Cameron bands observed in aurora