Friday, 10 July 2015

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Tracks Sunspots

Tracking Sunspots from Mars, Summer 2015

Curiosity is monitoring sunspots on the side of the sun facing away from Earth, during weeks when sun-monitoring spacecraft can't provide that information.





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