Spectacular solar storms

Curiosity's handlers put the rover on standby after the sun unleashed a medium-strength flare in the Red Planet's direction on March 5. It's the second recent shutdown for Curiosity, which had just come out of protective "safe mode" on March 2 as engineers work through an issue with its primary computer system.

This image provided by NASA shows an image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory of a blast of plasma streaming from the sun in August 2012. Scientists say a solar eruption was detected on ... more 
This image provided by NASA shows an image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory of a blast of plasma streaming from the sun in August 2012. Scientists say a solar eruption was detected on March 5, 2013 and was headed toward Mars. NASA’s Curiosity rover will postpone some activities but other Mars missions will operate normally. less 
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