An ESCAPADE to Mars, on the cheap
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Energetic Particles of Mars
In orbit, you need about a hundred and 30 mega electron volds to avoid harmful proton radiation. But the highest dose dose ray that's been seen by the m s l rad instrument is about two times higher than background. Most of the energetic particle hazard for humans on the surface of mars has not been from seps because we've had a relatively weak solar max. And so in all of this we also edge closer to considering that greatest question about mars, was there life? Were the conditions ripe for the creation of life? Could it still be hiding out there to day?
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