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Tag Archives: SPICAM
Blue, red, and green aurorae should be naked-eye visible in Martian sky
For the first time, an international team of scientists from NASA, the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG), the European Space Agency and Aalto University in Finland, have predicted that colorful, glowing aurorae can be seen by the … Continue reading
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Mars multi-year global humidity map by seasons
Russian scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), together with their French and American colleagues, have created a “map” of the distribution of water vapour in … Continue reading
Mars atmosphere has particles in two sizes
A group of French and Russian scientists using data from the SPICAM ultraviolet and infrared spectrometer on the Mars Express orbiter has discovered that the dust particles in the planet’s atmosphere occur in two sizes; their results are published in … Continue reading