The NASA Curiosity rover recorded with its cameras the most powerful solar storm on Mars in 12 years of observations.
As reported by the Space.com portal, NASA engineers equipment was being prepared for the upcoming storm, but the level of radiation turned out to be so high that, including due to the aurora that appeared on the Red Planet, the camera of the Mars Odyssey probe, which is responsible for the orientation of the device in space, was out of order for an hour.
The main source of solar storms was the active region AR3664, which was an intense magnetic flux node on the Sun, with dozens of sunspots that released a large number of powerful flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) first to Earth and then, as rotation around the Sun, Mars.
As NASA experts reported, if you estimate the impact of this amount of radiation on a person, it will be 30 X-rays of the chest in a row.