The Mars Curiosity rover had to weather a solar storm. Specks seen in the video the rover captured are "caused by charged ...
On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries ...
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed signal lock with Perseverance first, followed by Curiosity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter relay network.
Though it's a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we'll never see on Earth. The sun will rise on NASA's solar-powered Mars rover ...