Future human astronauts traveling to Mars would face risks beyond each other's changing moods in cramped quarters. They would also get blasted with extremely high, harmful doses of space radiation, well beyond the lifetime acceptable limits currently used by NASA, according to a new study of data collected by the agency's Mars Curiosity rover on its voyage to Mars. "Previously, there have not been direct measurements of the dose rate in deep space by shielded instruments," said Cary Zeitlin, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and the lead author of the study published tomorrow in the journal Science. In other words, even the Curiosity spacecraft's shields — the most advanced built yet for interplanetary travel — could...
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