{"id":3927076,"date":"2026-07-21T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/marss-2018-planetwide-dust-storm-hints-at-possible-solar-influence-on-its-weather\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:04:16","slug":"marss-2018-planetwide-dust-storm-hints-at-possible-solar-influence-on-its-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/marss-2018-planetwide-dust-storm-hints-at-possible-solar-influence-on-its-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars&#8217;s 2018 planetwide dust storm hints at possible solar influence on its weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Solar storms may affect weather on Mars when they strike at the same time as major Martian dust storms, a new study suggests for the first time. Researchers found evidence of rising temperatures in the red planet&#8217;s lower atmosphere when the two events coincided\u2014hinting that Mars may have a more complex atmospheric environment and weather system than previously thought.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-mars-planetwide-storm-hints-solar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar storms may affect weather on Mars when they strike at the same time as major Martian dust storms, a new study suggests for the first time. Researchers found evidence of rising temperatures in the red planet&#8217;s lower atmosphere when the two events coincided\u2014hinting that Mars may have a more complex atmospheric environment and weather [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}