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#1 2005-12-13 07:34:47
- Palomar
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Re: Mars: Hundreds of Aurorae
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#2 2005-12-13 10:38:05
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Re: Mars: Hundreds of Aurorae
When or if we get around to terraforming Mars, then maybe the flashes will be in the visible spectrum instead of the ultraviolet... that would be something to see.
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#3 2005-12-13 10:53:03
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Re: Mars: Hundreds of Aurorae
When or if we get around to terraforming Mars, then maybe the flashes will be in the visible spectrum instead of the ultraviolet... that would be something to see.
*A different article seemed to indicate, though, that if there were currently astronauts on Mars they would see something; pale and undramatic, but a bit of something.
This article says "the glow probably generate(s) only ultraviolet light..."
Not that I'm seeking a debate. I'm just wistfully hoping something would be visible to the human eye, even if ghostly.
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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
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#4 2005-12-13 14:31:20
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Re: Mars: Hundreds of Aurorae
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