It took seven months to confirm that NASA’s Opportunity rover was dead. The U.S. space agency’s little robotic probe had stopped communicating with Earth back on June 10, 2018—after being engulfed by a severe Martian dust storm then blanketing the entire Red Planet. It’s taken years, but physicists now have some idea about why exactly that storm became so dangerous.
New research presented this month at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting has uncovered compelling evidence that radiation from solar storms is capable of magnifying weather events on Mars after penetrating the planet’s weak magnetosphere. The new study…
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