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Mars reveals first Zwan-Wolf effect deep in its atmosphere during a solar storm

In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected—observations of an atmospheric effect never before seen in the Red Planet's atmosphere. Using ...
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NASA's MAVEN finds first evidence of Zwan-Wolf effect deep in the atmosphere of Mars

Back in December 2023, while analyzing Martian telemetry, astronomers came across an unusual finding. The team found an atmospheric effect on the Red Planet that nobody had ever observed before.
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NASA found something lurking in Mars’ atmosphere that scientists had only ever seen around Earth

Scrolling through routine MAVEN data one day in December 2023, researcher Christopher Fowler noticed something he couldn’t explain: strange “wiggles” in the spacecraft’s magnetic field readings as it ...
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NASA's MAVEN Detects First Zwan-Wolf Effect Deep In Mars' Atmosphere

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has recorded something Mars has never shown before, which is the Zwan-Wolf effect. It's a process long known in Earth's magnetosphere but now seen for the first time in a ...