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Description
With an ever increasing interest in robotic and human exploration of Mars, the observation and understanding of space weather at Mars is becoming an important topic. The ultimate goal, as at Earth, will be to have a reliable capabilty of forecasting potential hazardous impacts of space weather events. The Martian plasma system, however, is very different from that at Earth, mainly as a result of the lack of an internal dipole field, but other aspects, such as a less dense atmosphere and a more eccentric orbit of the sun. At present a number of spacecraft at Mars provide a wealth of data during space weather events such as solar flares, solar energetic particles, interplanetary coronal mass ejections and stream interface regions. The number of extreme events available at present, however, is somewhat limited which means that untangling the impact of each of these types of events individually is somewhat difficult. In this presentation I shall provide an overview of our understanding of space weather events, illustrating this with examples from some of the more extreme events.
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