Remember the northern lights last month? See how that solar storm impacted Mars' surface yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NASA s fleet of robotic Martian explorers measured the effects of May s dramatic solar storms, experiencing the equivalent of undergoing about 30 chest X-rays all at once.
In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much radiation future astronauts could encounter on the Red Planet.
Don Hassler, science program director at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, is leading a team of scientists tasked with developing a new instrument for NASA to study massive solar eruptions on the Sun, according to an agency news release.
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