
Why NASA's Mars missions will be silent for weeks
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NASA is standing down from commanding its Mars missions for the next few weeks.
The sun emits hot, ionized gas from its corona that extends into space and can obstruct radio signals and engineers' commands and communications to spacecraft.
NASA explained in a Tuesday release that most missions will stop sending commands to its Mars spacecraft between Saturday and Oct. 16.
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