In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much radiation future astronauts could encounter on the Red Planet. Mars scientists have been anticipating epic solar storms ever since the Sun entered a period of peak activity earlier this year called solar maximum. Over the past month, NASA’s Mars rovers and orbiters have provided...
6 min read NASA Scientists Gear Up for Solar Storms at Mars The Sun will be at peak activity this year, providing a rare opportunity to study how solar storms and radiation could affect future astronauts on the Red Planet. In the months ahead, two of NASA’s Mars spacecraft will have an unprecedented opportunity to study how solar flares — giant explosions on the...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these images of the solar flare on May 14, 2024 — as seen in the bright flash on the right side. These images show a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in royal blue and gold. This flare shows ongoing activity from the same region active during the...
By Jessica Barnett After months of preparation and years since its last flight, the upgraded High Resolution Coronal Imager Flare mission – Hi-C Flare, for short – took to the skies for a never-before-seen view of a solar flare. The low-noise cameras – built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama – are part of a suite of state-of-the-art...
The researchers used the Aitken, Electra, and Pleiades supercomputers at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility, located at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. With near-real-time data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and ESA’s (the European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar Orbiter, they created a dynamic model of the corona...
We’re on the edge of our seats waiting for the solar eclipse. We hope you have your solar eclipse glasses and your popcorn ready for this out-of-this-world event. Of course, we wouldn’t be able to watch this without the tremendous research and innovations of stellar women in STEM. Today we’re shining a much-needed light on scientists and inventors who paved the way...
We’re on the edge of our seats waiting for the solar eclipse. We hope you have your solar eclipse glasses and your popcorn ready for this out-of-this-world event. Of course, we wouldn’t be able to watch this without the tremendous research and innovations of stellar women in STEM. Today we’re shining a much-needed light on scientists and inventors who paved the way...
We’re on the edge of our seats waiting for the solar eclipse. We hope you have your solar eclipse glasses and your popcorn ready for this out-of-this-world event. Of course, we wouldn’t be able to watch this without the tremendous research and innovations of stellar women in STEM. Today we’re shining a much-needed light on scientists and inventors who paved the way...
The Sun will be at peak activity this year, providing a rare opportunity to study how solar storms and radiation could affect future astronauts on the Red Planet. In the months ahead, two of NASA’s Mars spacecraft will have an unprecedented opportunity to study how solar flares — giant explosions on the Sun’s surface — could affect robots and future astronauts on the...
The move by the Biden administration to intervene in a dispute over tariffs on solar parts from Southeast Asia poses a key question: what is our long-term strategy for promoting the buildout of zero- and low-carbon resources domestically, while ensuring U.S. manufacturers are a dominant global player in the clean energy transition? […] The administration now has an...