US EditionLightning 'Whistler' Detected on Mars For The First Time, Scientists Report
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For the first time, a research team from the Charles University of Prague has detected a flash on Mars. The analysis of radio signals from the Maven spacecraft shows the characteristic signature.
Lightning 'Whistler' Detected on Mars For The First Time, Scientists Report
The radio 'howl' of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time. While orbiting the red planet, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft recorded an unusual electromagnetic signal back on 21 June 2015. Researchers have now shown that the signal matches a 'whistler' – a dispersed radio wave produced when lightning-generated emissions travel through a planet's ionosphere. The finding suggests electrical discharges do occur in the Martia…
Czech science has proven that electrical discharges similar to lightning occur in the atmosphere of Mars. A four-member research team from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University (MFF UK) in Prague and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ÚFA AV ČR) made the discovery thanks to measurements by the American MAVEN probe. It has been orbiting the red planet since 2014 and provid…
The Mars planet has just delivered a long-kept secret. Scientists have identified, for the first time, a whistler-like signal in the Martian ionosphere — the characteristic radio signature of an electric discharge similar to Earth's lightning. Recorded by NASA's MAVEN probe as of June 2015, this data had never ... Read more The Mars article reveals its flashes: an unprecedented radio signal captured for the first time in the atmosphere of the re…
Czech scientists have shown that electrical discharges similar to lightning occur in the atmosphere of Mars. A four-member research team from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic managed to determine this based on measurements from the American Maven probe.
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