Guilty raining Mars thousands of meteors

Guilty raining Mars thousands of meteors

Followers said scientists of the Department of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The guilty over the planet Mars last month and rained thousands of meteors per hour and the fact that a new layer of ion-charged particles in the atmosphere of the Red Planet.

However, near nightfall, Mars sky draped tinge of yellow sodium result in the dust of the comet evaporated causing a yellow light bulbs in the lights looked like parking spaces on the ground.

The culprit left his mark on Mars Behind the large amounts of dust in the atmosphere, surpassing the expectations of the computer models.

Said planetary scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Nick Schneider told reporters in a conference call on Friday, "I think that such a large number of meteors vision at the same time would have been an amazing experience."

The scientists used a fleet of unmanned spacecraft that took place on Mars to study the comet "Siding Spring" as it passed on October 19 / October last.

Comet passed within 139 500 kilometers from Mars just less than half the distance between the Earth and the Moon, and ten times closer than the distance reached by any comet passed by Earth.

The comet came from a distant region of space called the cloud "ort" by icy remnants from the solar system is about 4.6 billion years ago.

It is noteworthy that NASA changed the paths of the space vehicles to become behind Mars in order to protect it from dust effect when the storm of meteors.

Source: Reuters