Reuters — Images from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) Mission have revealed an ultraviolet, previously unseen, view of Mars.
The video was uploaded to social media on Monday (October 17) and shows several images taken by the mission camera.
The images were taken between July 9-10, 2016 and show the rapid movement of cloud formation over Mars.
Nick Schneider, of the University of Colorado, told Reuters that the ultraviolet colours of the planet have been rendered in ‘false colour’ in the video to show what would otherwise not be visible to the human eye.
The MAVEN was launched in November 2013 to explore the red planet’s upper atmosphere and its interactions with the sun and wind.
