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Mystery Ozone Surge Discovered in Mars’s Winter Darkness


Scientists have captured rare insights into Mars’s north polar vortex, where temperatures plunge far below those outside its boundaries and darkness triggers an unusual surge in ozone. New observations of Mars’s north polar vortex during winter reveal that conditions inside it are far more extrem

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