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Carbon-dioxide Auroras
July 27 , 2023
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- NASA’s satellite spots infrared carbon dioxide aurora from outer space.
- An aurora is a natural light display those shimmers in the sky.
- When charged particles crash into the planet’s atmosphere, they interact with many different atoms and molecules.
- Carbon dioxide is one of them.
- When carbon dioxide molecules about 90 kilometres above Earth become excited during an aurora, they emit infrared radiation.
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