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Can Humans Live on Mars?

November 19, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter 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 [...]

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Curiosity Starts First Science on Mars Sojurn – How Lethal is Space Radiation to Life’s Survival

December 20, 2011

Barely two weeks into the 8 month journey to the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover was commanded to already begin collecting the first science of the mission by measuring the ever present radiation environment in space. Engineers powered up the MSL Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) that monitors high-energy atomic and subatomic [...]

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Solar Powered Jupiter bound JUNO lands at Kennedy Space Center for blastoff

April 17, 2011

Juno, NASA’s next big mission bound for the outer planets, has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to kick off the final leg of launch preparations in anticipation of blastoff for Jupiter this summer. The huge solar-powered Juno spacecraft will skim to within 4800 kilometers (3000 miles) of the cloud tops of Jupiter to study [...]

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Space Radiation

July 19, 2009

Space radiation is emitted by the Sun, other stars and other high energy objects outside the Earth’s atmosphere. This radiation bombards the Earth on a regular basis but we never really pay attention to it except for the UV rays from the Sun. The reason why this is so is because the Earth has several [...]

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