Exploring the Solar System
Season 3
Ep 13. Season's Greed-ings
- December 8, 2000
- 7 min
This is the story of a discovery made on St. Patrick's Day, 2015. We learned just how much Mars is at the mercy of our sun. During a solar outburst that hit Mars that day, the NASA spacecraft Maven measured an accelerated loss of molecules in its upper atmosphere.