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Large solar storm sparks global aurora and doubles radiation levels on the martian surface
September 30, 2017 by Jim Scott
 

An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars this month, observed by NASA missions in orbit and on the surface.

"NASA's distributed set of science missions is in the right place to detect activity on the Sun and examine the effects of such solar events at Mars as never possible before," said MAVEN Program Scientist Elsayed Talaat, program scientist at NASA Headquarters, Washington, for NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, mission.

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-large-solar-storm-global-aurora.html