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Mars-Bound Probe Serves As Radiation Guinea Pig
Written by timothy   
Friday, 27 January 2012 17:19

FG_AUTHORS: timothy


sighted writes "This week's huge solar storm will benefit future astronauts, thanks to the rover Curiosity, now on its way to Mars. The rover is equipped with an instrument that measures the radiation exposure that could affect a human astronaut en route to the Red Planet. Scientists are just starting to pore over the data from the blast of particles. Don't worry about the poor robotic geologist, though: 'No harmful effects to the Mars Science Laboratory have been detected from this solar event,' says NASA."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Read more: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/M38EFWY1mbY/mars-bound-probe-serves-as-radiation-guinea-pig

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