NASA is putting pause on sending commands to its Mars exploration instruments from November 11 through November 25 as it waits out the Mars solar conjunction. With the sun in the way, any commands sent to Mars could suffer interference capable of harming the robotic explorers.
But is it necessary?
If Musk ever gets to Mars the lack of communication for two weeks will be the best part of the project.
They should try something with magnets.
I want to agree with this but I don’t know enough about how magnets work to reasonably dispute it
No one knows. That’s why we should try.