At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/evidence-of-solar-flares-bigg… … refers to an article in April's Nature Communications (2016) and the possibility the Sun can produce super flares – one hundred times bigger than the Cinningham event in 1859.
See a video of the recent solar flare in action caught on video at www.space.com/32685-inside-the-heart-shaped-sunspot-plasma-s-magnetic-fl… … a video of a big sun spot facing the Earth (from last week)
Meanwhile, some stunning images of the surface of Marscan be seen at http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/photos/travelling-surface-mars-38741770…