{"id":932530,"date":"2026-09-07T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/nasas-maven-illuminates-new-understanding-of-auroras-at-mars\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:15:18","slug":"nasas-maven-illuminates-new-understanding-of-auroras-at-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/nasas-maven-illuminates-new-understanding-of-auroras-at-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras.\u00a0Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show the same mechanism that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth\u2019s atmosphere is happening at [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/maven\/nasas-maven-illuminates-new-understanding-of-auroras-at-mars\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Arden Mayoral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras.\u00a0Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show the same mechanism that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth\u2019s atmosphere is happening at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3532,4374,192],"tags":[19079,10549],"class_list":["post-932530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maven","category-nasas","category-sports","tag-maven","tag-nasas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}