How can cosmic rays from mars affect our mobile battery?

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abha

Answer 1

Cosmic rays don't come from Mars.

Cosmic rays are very high speed particles which fly through our Milky-Way and plow Earth's Atmosphere causing a small shower of very tiny, very high speed particles.   No one knows for certain what the exact origins or Cosmic Rays are, but a few ideas have been put forth:

- Supernovae

- The Disks around black holes

- The strong magnetic fields that course through our galaxy

Whatever the case may be, they probably don't affect your cell phone's battery a whole heck of a lot.  However, they might, from time to time, affect the transmission of signals from one phone to another- especially if those signals are relayed to an orbiting telecommunications satellite.  If that satellite is struck by a cosmic ray in just the right place to fry some vital electronic component, your call might be affected.