Another kind of 'corona' is to blame.
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shows a close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 34,648,840 miles away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken between 6:20 p.m. and 7:12 p.m. EDT August 26, 2003 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The picture was taken just 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years.
With Earth and Mars on the opposite sides of the Sun, NASA cannot reliably send messages for a few weeks because they may be corrupted by the Sun’sThis animation illustrates Mars solar conjunction, a period when Mars is on the opposite side of theSun from Earth. During this time, the Sun can interrupt radio transmissions to spacecraft on and around the Red Planet.
Most missions will stop sending commands between October 2 and 16, though a few will extend that a day or so depending on the angular distance between Mars and the Sun in Earth’s sky. NASA’s missions at Mars will also pause sending back raw images. The full list of NASA’s Mars missions affected by the Red Planet’s solar conjunction are:
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