Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the ...

Mars has metal in its air. NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter has spotted iron, magnesium and sodium ions — electrically charged atoms — high up in the Red Planet's ...

Mars’s atmosphere harbours a layer of electrically charged metal atoms, and they’re not behaving as expected. NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Emission) spacecraft found layers of ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, currently in orbit around Mars, has made an interesting discovery of metal ions in its atmosphere. It’s the first time we’ve found such a feature on another planet. The rest ...

An artist's rendition of Maven as it spies on Mars' atmosphere. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Since 2013, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has been digging into ...