Mars orbiters witness solar superstorm striking the Red Planet: ‘The timing was extremely lucky’
An artist’s rendering of a solar storm stripping charged particles from the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere. (Image credit: NASA/GSFC) Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a powerful solar “superstorm” that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet. The storm caused glitching spacecraft and a […]



