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Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, prohibiting the flow of charges. This could cause a massive charge buildup in a ...

A powerful solar storm in May 2024 created auroras on Mars and provided scientists with crucial information that could aid future crewed missions to the Red Planet.

Solar panels don't have to be flat, heavy, or rigid. Researchers at @cornelluniversity have designed a photovoltaic fabric that could transform how and where we capture sunlight.

Each of InSight’s dinner-table-size solar panels has gathered a thin dust layer since landing. Their power output has fallen about 30% since then, due both to dust as well as Mars to moving ...

“Everybody’s solar panels took a hit,” Curry said. She added that one solar storm like that of May 20 “causes about the same amount of degradation that we typically see over a year.” ...

Meanwhile, NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter was blasted with energy from the solar particles and had its power temporarily knocked out. It was up and running like normal less than an hour later ...

NASA's InSight lander has been on the red planet since 2018, and it relies on solar panels for power, which means there's the potential for dust build-up. Luckily, JPL engineers devised an ...