NASA’s Curiosity rover captured and transmitted images of "sun rays" as the sun dropped below the horizon on Mars last month, which was part of a new cloud-imaging campaign that the rover is ...

Sun rays are also referred to as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for "twilight." The new images are part of the rover's newest twilight cloud survey, which is a continuance of its ...

Because of the shortage, clouds over the ocean can lose as much as 7 per cent of their liquid water within seven or eight days of the cosmic-ray minimum. "A link between the Sun, cosmic rays ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured "sun rays" on Mars for the first time, the agency says. The footage was taken on Feb. 6, NASA said, and showed the phenomenon as the sun set on the planet.

The robotic rover caught the rays of the descending sun as it started a new cloud-imaging mission on the Red Planet NASA's Curiosity Rover has captured a dazzling image of rays from the setting ...

The Svensmark hypothesis is that when the solar wind is weak, more cosmic rays penetrate to Earth. That creates more charged particles in the atmosphere, which in turn induces more clouds to form, ...