Recent solar activity has created 'glowing auroras' over Mars, NASA scientists say.
A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections have reached Mars, providing researchers with views of 'Martian auroras,' NASA said in a statement on Monday.The sun's activity levels ebb and flow over 11-year cycles with the peak of a solar maximum happening now and causing an increase in fascinating space weather, Space Weather Prediction Center Project Manager Bryan Brasher previously told Newsweek.
'If astronauts had been standing next to NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at the time, they would have received a radiation dose of 8,100 micrograys—equivalent to 30 chest X-rays,' the space agency said. 'While not deadly, it was the biggest surge measured by Curiosity's Radiation Assessment Detector since the rover landed 12 years ago.'A NASA orbiter that provides information about Mars' atmosphere has captured another effect of the recent solar activity.
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