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The Sun Erupted With the Year’s Largest Solar Flare This Week, and Space Weather-Fueled Aurora Activity Could Continue
The last in a series of three coronal mass ejections hit Earth on Wednesday, so experts are keeping an eye on geomagnetic storm potential
The declaration came on Wednesday, December 21, after NASA failed to make contact with the lander across two consecutive attempts, leading the mission team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to conclude that InSight’s solar-powered batteries had run out of energy, a state referred to as “dead bus.”
Jeff Bezos scored one of the biggest wins of his space career this week. The Guardian reports that Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket finally launched from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, sending two NASA Mars probes toward the Red Planet while landing its first booster stage in a major technical milestone.
When fast-moving particles and plasma slam into Earth’s magnetic field, they can temporarily disrupt the power grid. Space weather can also interfere with air traffic control radio and satellites in orbit. Severe storms are capable of scrambling other radio and GPS communications.
NASA has spotted what looks like green rain on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The moon seems to glow a green color, which is surprising to experts.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launches NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft into Earth orbit on a mission to study Mars’ space weather.