Mars Solar Conjunction 2024 Olympics. The missions pause because hot, ionised gas expelled from the sun’s corona could potentially corrupt radio signals sent from earth to nasa’s mars spacecraft, leading to unexpected behaviours. Mars and jupiter will appear so close to each other on wednesday that they will look like a double planet in the early morning hours.
Nasa said that solar conjunction is the period when earth and mars, in their orbit around the sun, are obscured from each other by the sun itself. I was able to catch the pair this morning about an hour before sunrise.
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