Last week, Earth was hit by a massive solar flare from sunspot AR3664, thrilling space enthusiasts with a spectacular aurora display. This week, Mars is set to experience the impact of another solar flare from the same sunspot. Dr. Ed Thiemann, a heliophysicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space
For the first time in its eight years orbiting Mars, NASA’s MAVEN mission witnessed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously, the result of solar storms that began on Aug. 27.
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