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New Study Shows Cosmic Rays Could Cause Alzheimer’s

January 1, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Humans explore Mars in “Distant Shores,” an illustration by NASA artist Pat Rawlins Cosmic rays from deep space could pose serious health risks to future astronauts on long-duration missions to Mars — even bringing on the memory-destroying symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, [...]

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Can Humans Live on Mars?

November 19, 2012

Image caption: Curiosity is taking the first ever radiation measurements from the surface of another planet in order to determine if future human explorers can live on Mars – as she traverses the terrain of the Red Planet. Curiosity is looking back to her rover tracks and the foothills of Mount Sharp and the eroded [...]

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NASA Probes Play the Music of Earth’s Magnetosphere

September 18, 2012

Launched on August 30, 2012, NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) satellites have captured recordings of audible-range radio waves emitted by Earth’s magnetosphere. The stream of chirps and whistles heard in the video above consist of 5 separate occurrences captured on September 5 by RBSP’s Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science [...]

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New Satellites Will Tighten Knowledge of Earth’s Radiation Belts

August 14, 2012

Surrounding our planet like vast invisible donuts (the ones with the hole, not the jelly-filled kind) are the Van Allen radiation belts, regions where various charged subatomic particles get trapped by Earth’s magnetic fields, forming rings of plasma. We know that the particles that make up this plasma can have nasty effects on spacecraft electronics [...]

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New Data Find a Silver Lining of Cosmic Radiation

March 20, 2012

Cosmic radiation, it seems, may be a blessing and a curse. A team of scientists based at the University of New Hampshire have used data from the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to measure radiation on the Moon’s surface. They’ve found that while radiation is [...]

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