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The strongest magnetic storm in the last 5 years made the cameras of Venus Express and spacecraft flying around Venus, ceasing operations yesterday.

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Two intense storms from the sun burst out on the sun on March 4 and March 6. They launched a stream of particles carrying huge charges into the surrounding space. At speeds of up to 3.2 million km / h, charged particles began to penetrate the Earth's magnetic field from March 7.

Due to its activity on Venus's orbit, Venus Express is closer to the sun than Earth. So it caught the huge flow of particles from the solar storm. At 1:40 on March 8 at GMT, the European Space Agency's (ESA) control specialist Venus Express announced that the two cameras that had tracked the star's stars had stopped working, Space reported.

Illustration of Venus Express ship of ESA on Venus orbit.

'After countless streams of particles hit the ship, cameras could not record stars anymore. From that time until now we have not recovered their activities, ' said Octavio Camino, head of the Venus Express train control group at the ESA's Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany.

The camera pair on Venus Express takes photos of the surrounding space and uses built-in data to identify the stars. With information about stars, Venus Express can determine its position and direction in space. Such cameras are very important for all spacecraft, especially for ships operating in interplanetary space.

Experts identified the camera pair on Venus Express will not be paralyzed for a long time because the sun's activity increases and decreases periodically.

'The camera tracks stars who have stopped operating 5 to 10 times due to the solar storm. But in the incident this time the camera was paralyzed for nearly 40 hours, an unusually long time. In a previous incident, they only stopped working for 32 hours, 'said Paolo Ferri, ESA's director of solar and planetary exploration.

Some ESA officials predict that the cameras of Venus Express will only work again in a few days as the solar storm continues to explode.