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Solar Storm Blasting to Mars Shuts Down Curiosity – 1st Rocky Sample Results on tap

March 8, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Due to a fast approaching solar storm, NASA has temporarily shut down surface operations of the Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover. NASA took the precautionary measure because ‘a big coronal mass ejection’ was predicted to hit Mars over the next [...]

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Amateur Captures Coronal Mass Ejection

October 14, 2011

While you can’t exactly call Joe Brimacombe an amateur astrophotographer, he’s managed to capture an elusive solar event on film… a coronal mass ejection! Remove this ad

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Video: Watch a Solar Storm Slam into Earth

August 18, 2011

Newly reprocessed images from NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft, allow scientists to trace the anatomy of a Coronal Mass Ejection in December 2008 as it moves and changes on its journey from the Sun to the Earth. Using a new technique, heliophysicists can now identify the origin and structure of the material that impacted Earth, and connect [...]

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Sun Storm

December 16, 2009

Space is trying to kill you. There’s no atmosphere, temperatures that would freeze you solid; it’s completely hostile to life. But one of the biggest risks to astronauts visiting the Moon might be solar storms. These are storms of protons and electrons blasted from the Sun and accelerated to near light speed. An unprotected astronaut [...]

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