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Samantha Mathewson

You've never seen Mars like this. Amazing NASA photos reveal Red Planet in ultraviolet light

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission captured ultraviolet views of the planet at different points along its orbit around the sun.  (Image credit: NASA/LASP/CU Boulder)

New ultraviolet photos of Mars offer stunning views of the planet's changing seasons. 

Astronomers using NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft photographed the Red Planet in July 2022, during the southern hemisphere's summer season when the planet was closest to the sun, and then again in January 2023 after Mars' northern hemisphere had passed the farthest point in its orbit from the sun. 

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