"Perseverance Mars Rover Captures Stunning Images of Earth-Bound Sunspot"

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has captured images of a large sunspot moving across the solar disk, providing a one-week warning of its approach towards Earth. Sunspots are areas of the sun with strong magnetic fields and can serve as launch pads for solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which can impact satellite navigation and disrupt power grids. While monitoring sunspots is important for space weather prediction, Perseverance's main mission is to search for signs of past life on Mars and collect samples for future return to Earth.