{"id":214082,"date":"2025-05-15T01:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/perseverance-mars-rover-captures-first-visible-light-auroras-during-intense-solar-storm"},"modified":"2025-05-15T01:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:20:38","slug":"perseverance-mars-rover-captures-first-visible-light-auroras-during-intense-solar-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/perseverance-mars-rover-captures-first-visible-light-auroras-during-intense-solar-storm","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance Mars rover captures first visible-light auroras during intense solar storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perseverance-mars-rover-captures-first-visible-light-auroras-during-intense-solar-storm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries with it large amounts of solar energetic particles. This solar activity led to stunning auroras across the solar system, including at Mars, where NASA\u2019s Perseverance Mars rover made history by detecting them for the first time from the surface of another planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future astronauts on Mars\u2019 surface,\u201d said Elise Knutsen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway and lead author of the <i>Science Advances<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.ads1563\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, which reported the detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries with it large amounts of solar energetic particles. This solar activity led to stunning auroras across the solar system, including [\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-214082","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\/214082","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=214082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}