Massive sunspot that brought widespread auroras to Earth now targets Mars

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fired off its strongest solar flare yet, erupting from AR3664 will now be directed away from Earth, but scientists say there's another planet that could experience impacts from the massive sunspot:, this is by-far the largest flare we've seen since MAVEN arrived at Mars in 2014," Dr. Ed Thiemann, Heliophysicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder's

Sun unleashes massive X8.7 solar flare, biggest of current cycle, from super-active monster sunspot on the Red Planet with a direct look at the sun with both AR3663 and AR3664 in view.

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