Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor in the United Kingdom, and has a degree in physics and astrophysics from the University of Manchester.
The specks in the sequence of images in this video were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting one of the navigation cameras aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. The mission uses the rover's navigation cameras to try capturing images of dust devils and wind gusts, like the gust seen here.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured evidence of a solar storm's charged particles arriving at the Martian surface in this three-frame video taken by one of the rover's navigation cameras on May 20, 2024, the 4,190th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.spacecraft's main star-finding camera that it uses for orienting itself. Although the camera came back online after one hour, it was a reminder that spacecraft are vulnerable to solar radiation.
That giant sunspot that supercharged auroras on Earth? It's back and may amp up the northern lights with June solar storms.
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