{"id":108720,"date":"2020-06-15T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mars-exhibits-green-glow-in-atmosphere-just-like-earth"},"modified":"2020-06-15T20:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:08:55","slug":"mars-exhibits-green-glow-in-atmosphere-just-like-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mars-exhibits-green-glow-in-atmosphere-just-like-earth","title":{"rendered":"Mars Exhibits \u2018Green Glow\u2019 in Atmosphere, Just Like Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-exhibits-green-glow-in-atmosphere-just-like-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) has just announced that its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trace_Gas_Orbiter\">ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter<\/a> (TGO) has identified a long-suspected \u201cgreen glow\u201d around Mars. The green glow is due to the interaction of sunlight with atoms and molecules in Mars\u2019 atmosphere. To date, we\u2019ve only observed the phenomenon around one other planet: Earth. Now, the scientists who\u2019ve discovered the Red Planet\u2019s green glow say it could help us better understand the planet\u2019s atmosphere. And how to land safely on its surface.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>An artist\u2019s illustration of the green glow around Mars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Exploration\/ExoMars\/ExoMars_spots_unique_green_glow_at_the_Red_Planet\">ESA<\/a> <\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/green-glow-mars\">Futurism<\/a> reported on the finding, which was outlined in a paper recently published in the journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-020-1123-2\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>. According to the paper, this discovery marks the first time scientists have observed the \u201cday glow\u201d and \u201cnight glow\u201d that generate the \u201cgreen line\u201d around Earth around Mars. Or any other planet. The discovery also stands as long sought-after confirmatory evidence of predictions regarding the Martian atmosphere, which date back 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) has just announced that its ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has identified a long-suspected \u201cgreen glow\u201d around Mars. The green glow is due to the interaction of sunlight with atoms and molecules in Mars\u2019 atmosphere. To date, we\u2019ve only observed the phenomenon around one other planet: Earth. Now, the scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}