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3 hours ago

NASA Recruits Mars Perseverance Rover to Monitor Sun's Activity

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun's activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover will image the sun with its Mastcam-Z cameras, capturing crucial information about sunspots and other large features that can give clues to solar activity. Mars is currently passing behind the sun, giving the rover a view of the star's far sidea perspective we can't see from Earth.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

After Last Week's Spectacular Auroras, What's Next for the Sun?

Solar activity peaked in October 2024, and despite declining sunspot counts the Sun can still generate significant space weather events during the cycle's declining phase.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

Something Weird Is Going on With the Sun, Scientists Find

The Sun unexpectedly increased activity since about 2008, reversing a decades-long quieting trend with more sunspots and solar flares.
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fromwww.npr.org
6 months ago

A telescope's powerful new tool may offer a better way to predict solar storms

The world's most powerful solar telescope has taken a milestone image of sunspots, enhancing future predictions of solar storms.
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