A Pro-Am collaboration to allow new discoveries at Mars
Résumé
Several features have been either predicted or briefly observed in the night upper atmosphere of Mars, namely, blue, green and red aurorae on one side, and high altitude cloud systems on the other. These cannot always be observed by the current armada of spacecrafts but may be revealed through a tremendous observational effort from the Earth. This can only be achieved by a strong international collaboration of astrophotographers and professional astrophysicists. In this article, we show what should be expected from positive observations, why the space instruments are not equipped to do these observations and how to coordinate this effort through a large Pro-Am collaboration.