Trouble comes on the heels of the rover's recovery from a computer glitch. Just days after waking up from a self-imposed safe mode, the Mars rover Curiosity is getting some extra shuteye as it waits for a solar storm to calm down. On Tuesday, a huge solar flare erupted from the sun's far side as viewed from Earth. But it was right toward Mars, and it also hurled a cloud of superheated gas toward the Red Planet. Mars doesn't have a magnetic field like Earth's, so any spacecraft (or future people)...
Trouble comes on the heels of the rover's recovery from a computer glitch. Just days after waking up from a self-imposed safe mode, the Mars rover Curiosity is getting some extra shuteye as it waits for a solar storm to calm down. On Tuesday, a huge solar flare erupted from the sun's far side as viewed from Earth. But it was right toward Mars, and it also hurled a cloud of superheated gas toward the Red Planet. Mars doesn't have a magnetic field like Earth's, so any spacecraft (or future people)...
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