{"id":5647,"date":"2026-07-29T15:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/understanding-how-martian-auroras-are-made\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:20:28","slug":"understanding-how-martian-auroras-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/understanding-how-martian-auroras-are-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding How Martian Auroras Are Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pia22076.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pia22076.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"In this illustration, yellow charged particles from the Sun strip off rainbow-colored charged particles from Mars (in the foreground). The Martian particles stream away from the planet, toward the viewer and off to the right of the image. The Sun illuminates the far side of Mars.\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This July 23, 2026, illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars\u2019 atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/maven\/\" rel=\"noopener\">MAVEN<\/a> (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission. NASA MAVEN mission scientists have found that certain types of auroras on Mars form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/maven\/nasas-maven-illuminates-new-understanding-of-auroras-at-mars\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about this discovery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: NASA<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA This July 23, 2026, illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars\u2019 atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA\u2019s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission. NASA MAVEN mission scientists have found that certain types of auroras on Mars form in a similar &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gundem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}