Mars auroras visible to naked eye

[Ðekel]

From Nasa's site:

http://www.nasa.gov/langley/feature/blue-aurorae-in-mars-sky-visible-to-the-naked-eye/

So suddenly it's possible to view auroras on Mars with the naked eye I suppose..

Sounds like something electric is afoot.

 

[Laura]

From Nasa's site:

http://www.nasa.gov/langley/feature/blue-aurorae-in-mars-sky-visible-to-the-naked-eye/

So suddenly it's possible to view auroras on Mars with the naked eye I suppose..

Sounds like something electric is afoot.

Yup. You can say that again. See also about Saturn activity:
https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,38407.0.html

And my response to the recent "scare date" business:
https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,38308.msg580064.html#msg580064

 

[Mikey]

So suddenly it's possible to view auroras on Mars with the naked eye I suppose..

It is somewhat surprising that NASA used a "Planeterella" laboratory experiment -- plasma physics -- to simulate such blue aurorae and photograph them. I expected them to NOT embrace the whole 'electric universe' and plasma paradigm.

 

[Mal7]

I almost went rushing outside to try and spot Mars' blue aurorae, but then realized after reading the article that you still have to be on Mars to see them. (I think the article's title was a bit confusing in that respect, since comets and their tails are sometimes described in terms of whether they are visible to the naked eye from earth, rather than from the vicinity of the comet.)

 

[Ðekel]

From Nasa's site:

http://www.nasa.gov/langley/feature/blue-aurorae-in-mars-sky-visible-to-the-naked-eye/

So suddenly it's possible to view auroras on Mars with the naked eye I suppose..

Sounds like something electric is afoot.

Yup. You can say that again. See also about Saturn activity:
https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,38407.0.html

And my response to the recent "scare date" business:
https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,38308.msg580064.html#msg580064

Exactly, I read those threads as well.

I had a thought that maybe what's new is not these phenomena themselves, but being able to see these things with the "naked eye".
Perhaps due to realm fluctuations we're starting to see what's always been happening just beyond the curtain..
If this is true then "new" objects and events should be appearing on other planets as well.
Then, the mechanism "causing" these things to appear is suddenly less the focus, and the fact that they are appearing is more noteworthy.

Mal7,
I wonder if that's indeed the case.. Auroras on earth are routinely filmed from the International Space Station which is in orbit.
(Which is obviously VERY close to earth in solar-system standards, yet not on the surface).

And, from the article:

"Perhaps NASA astronauts who plan to make their way towards the Mars’ surface by the 2030s aboard Orion will be the first to provide first-hand confirmation of the prediction. And to think, Mars’ southern lights could eventually become as much of a draw to aurorae admirers as Earth’s northern lights."

So you probably wouldn't need to be on the surface itself to see it.
And I'm not sure, but I'd bet there's at least a few telescopes strong enough and with high enough resolution to pick up a faint aurora on Mars even from earth.. (?) But even so, they are not the ones most people have laying around in their back-yards.