NASA prepares for intense sun storms on Mars during ‘solar maximum’

This coronal mass ejection, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, erupted on the sun on Aug. 31, 2012, traveling over 900 miles per second and sending radiation deep into space. Earth’s magnetic field shields it from radiation produced by solar events like this one, while Mars lacks that kind […]

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