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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captured The Eerie Aftermath of A Solar Eruption Blasting Mars
Inverse· 7 days agoThe Sun soaked Mars with high radiation last month, which gave way to exciting camera footage....
A massive solar storm hits Mars, revealing a risk for future astronauts on the red planet
CNN.com· 5 days agoCharged particles from a solar storm hit a camera aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, creating white...
Radiation Surge on Mars: NASA Watches Red Planet Light Up During Epic Solar Storm
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoIn addition to producing stunning auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much...
Radiation will be a real challenge for Mars colonists, powerful solar storm shows
SPACE.com· 6 days agoResearchers with NASA's MAVEN orbiter, 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, and Curiosity Mars rover each...
Radiation could pose challenge to putting people on Mars
The Hill· 4 days agoA record-setting solar storm made the aurora borealis visible as far south as North Carolina,...
Remember the northern lights last month? See how that solar storm impacted Mars’ surface
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 7 days agoNASA said this dose is not deadly to humans but is the largest surge measured by Curiosity since the...
Mars Got Cooked by a Recent Solar Storm
New York Times· 6 days agoObserved from Mars, “this was the strongest solar energetic particle event we’ve seen to date,” said Shannon Curry, the principal investigator of NASA’s...
Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoDays after solar storms spurred widespread sightings of auroras across Earth in early May, a new bout of eruptions on the sun brought glowing skies to another planet: Mars. From pole to pole ...
GOES-U satellite launch this month will bring a solar activity monitor to space
SPACE.com· 26 minutes agoA coronagraph is a specialized instrument designed to block out the light of the sun so researchers...
Ian Sample, The Guardian
The Raw Story· 2 days agoThe face of Pluto emerged from the gloom to reveal a dazzling landscape of ridges, ice mountains and plains of solid nitrogen hundreds of miles wide. Robots on the ground and in the sky above ...