When they slammed into Earth’s magnetic bubble, the world was treated to iridescent displays of the northern and southern lights.
But our planet wasn’t the only one in the solar firing line.
A few days after Earth’s light show, another series of eruptions screamed out of the sun.
This time, on May 20, Mars was blitzed by a beast of a storm.
Observed from Mars, “this was the strongest solar energetic particle event we’ve seen to date,” said Shannon Curry, the principal investigator of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter, or MAVEN, at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Mars, ”, Shannon Curry
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University of Colorado
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University of Colorado , Boulder