How Solar Storms This Year Will Help Mars Astronauts in the Future (Mars Report - April 2024)
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- The Sun’s activity will be at its peak in 2024, providing a rare opportunity to study how solar storms and radiation could affect future astronauts and robots on Mars. This peak period - called solar maximum - will be observed by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatiles EvolutioN) orbiter and Curiosity rover. Learn how both spacecraft have a big year ahead in this video featuring MAVEN Principal Investigator Shannon Curry of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Solar maximum occurs roughly every 11 years. During this period, the Sun is especially prone to throwing fiery tantrums in a variety of forms, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. These events launch radiation deep into space. When a series of these solar events erupt, it’s called a solar storm.
Earth’s magnetic field largely shields our home planet from the effects of these storms. But Mars lost its global magnetic field long ago, leaving the Red Planet more vulnerable to the Sun’s energetic particles. Researchers are excited to potentially gather data on just how intense solar activity can get at Mars. Among the preparations space agencies will need to make for sending humans to the Red Planet is what kind of radiation protection astronauts would require.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the MAVEN mission.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California leads the Curiosity mission.
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3UNS6g1
For more information on MAVEN, go to: science.nasa.gov/mission/maven/
For more information on Curiosity, go to: science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-...
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/Scientific Visualization Studio/SDO/LASP-University of Colorado Boulder/MSSS 
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This is so interesting! Well done JPL! 👍
Go Team! Happy to hear news of how Curiosity is with Maven❤❤🎉
Excellent looking forward to future studies
Nice spacecraft baby! : )
Since reading The Case for Mars as a teen, the Red Planet has been my space hankering.
Thanks for the update on MAVEN! (CU Boulder alumnus, 1990).
Thanks to all concerned for the hope and optimism that NASA provides , its most needed in these times.
Space science is critical for our future generations as were artificial Earth satellites in the sixties which were just curiosity experiments when first launched but have proven invaluable over the last six decades in weather forecasting, communications, geo resources and even detection of asteroids and comets which come close to hitting earth.
So will the interplanetary space probes teach us new scientific knowledge that we can hardly imagine today!
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Comment correctly stated.
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Good job
hey guys can you please tell if its allowed to visit JPL...i'm a really big space enthusiast it would amazing i'd get a chance to visit
We offer free public tours! Here's the info: www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/tours/
Good luck
Research into the development of an artificial magnetosphere might be the answer to future problems. For Mars, here on Earth and long distance space flights.
Could someone please explain something here: does Mars need a magnetic field in order to be able to hold an atmosphere? If not, terraforming on Mars might not be possible, correct?
most people irk me; the stark exclusion is NASA.
No one is ever going to Mars, it's a death sentence to try.
We could try and send death row inmates there first and study the side effects.
Most new frontiers have dangers. I guess bravery in a species is what makes frontiers be pushed along.
@@albertfdigby603 That's not Musk 🤣🤣🤣
Why not studying the sun from the earth instead of wasting tax payers money !! 🤷♀️
All your comments is just crying on NASA channels shut upppppppp
oh no, few cents go into science and discovery I want a refund (-anyways here's a new fighter jet)