NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS / INTA-CSIC / Space Science Institute / ISAE-Supaero / University of Arizona NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured a Martian atmospheric phenomenon ...

Yet its thin atmosphere, lack of a global magnetic field, and the resulting bombardment of radiation make the Martian surface an extreme and potentially lethal environment for most known life-forms.