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Martian lights: oxygen molecules emitting
Dissociation of carbon dioxide molecules in the summer atmosphere and the transport of oxygen atoms to the winter polar regions. There, the oxygen atoms (red spheres) recombine to form excited oxygen molecules that emit the night glow. Credit: ESA.
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