Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected
It took seven months to confirm that NASA’s Opportunity rover was dead. The U.S. space agency’s little robotic probe had stopped communicating with Earth back on June 10, 2018—after being engulfed by a severe Martian dust storm then blanketing the entire Red Planet. It’s taken years, but physicists now have some idea about why exactly … Read more