American Space Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently decided to stop sending active commands to its missions on the MARS for next few weeks till the time “Mars solar conjunction” remains in effect.

What is Solar Conjunction?

• As per NASA, during the Mars solar conjunction period, Earth and the MARS will be on opposite sides of the Sun.
• This position of both the planets will affect any communication attempt made by NASA for connecting with its Mars missions because Sun radiates hot & ionized gas from its corona.

• These gases can interfere with radio signals if the agency try to communicate with spacecraft at Mars.
• These radiations will stand in the middle of both the planets and corrupt commands. It could also result in unexpected behaviour from NASA’s deep space explorers.
• Thus, NASA has decided to stop sending signals.