Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora would show up

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible spectrum.

Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky phenomenon known as the aurora. The Mars rover Perseverance made history by taking the first-ever photograph of an aurora from another planet,