Astronauts going to Mars would receive huge, unsafe radiation doses - TweakTown

New research indicates that the enormous amount of solar radiation astronauts would receive on a round trip to Mars makes such a trip currently infeasible.

A paper on radiation and Mars titled "Crewed Missions to Mars: Modeling the Impact of Astrophysical Charged Particles on Astronauts and Assessing Health Effects" has been uploaded to the preprint ser… [+1596 chars]

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