Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. When the sun unleashed an extreme solar storm and slammed into Mars in May, it engulfed the red planet in auroras and a stream of charged particles and radiation, according to NASA. The Sun has… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. When the sun unleashed an extreme solar storm and slammed into Mars in May, it engulfed the red planet in auroras and a stream of charged particles and radiation, according to NASA. The Sun has… Read More »
Buried dozens of meters below Mars’ equator is a large honeycomb pattern similar to those found near Earth’s cold poles. Each crevasse is 70 meters (230 feet) wide (about half a football field) and is bordered by 30 meters wide (98 feet wide) slurries of ice and mud. Scientists say this material is probably between… Read More »