When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The airborne SOFIA telescope has measured atomic oxygen in Mars' atmosphere, the first such ...

Atomic oxygen has been measured with high precision for the first time using the OSAS-B spectrometer on a stratospheric balloon. The measurements provide important data for atmospheric and climate ...

For the first time in four decades, a team of researchers has found atomic oxygen lingering in the upper Martian atmosphere. But don't get carried away too quickly — atomic oxygen is very different ...