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Active Magnetic Radiation Shielding For Long-Duration Human Spaceflight, Kristine Ferrone
Active Magnetic Radiation Shielding For Long-Duration Human Spaceflight, Kristine Ferrone
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Exploration of interplanetary space presents dramatic hazards to human survival.
Space radiation hazards outside the protection of the Earth’s magnetosphere can
produce both acute and chronic health risks and thus become limiting factors for
NASA’s planned mission to Mars by the 2030s. Radiation exposure on a Mars mission
is delivered primarily by high energy ions from galactic cosmic rays and moderate
energy protons from solar particle events. The chronic radiation dose due to galactic
cosmic rays on a typical Mars mission is on the order of 1 Sv, and additional acute
radiation dose from solar flares can reach over 4 …