[ RadSafe ] Mars Radiation Won't Harm Astronauts, Curiosity Rover Finds

[radiation]

There are certainly more important issues than radiation dose on Mars, 
However, it is no way forbidden to ask "What-If" questions. That is part 
of science & technology development and of human curiosity. For that 
reason it is useless to ridicule these topics.

A thorough scientific study on this was presented at the 12th 
International Conference on Radiation Shielding & ANS Radiation 
Protection and Shielding Topical held at Nara Japan from 2-7 September 
2012. The program is accessible through <http://www.icrs12.org/>
The paper presented is
ESTIMATES OF EXTREME SOLAR PARTICLE EVENT RADIATION EXPOSURES ON MARS
Lawrence TOWNSEND (Univ. of Tennessee, USA), Anne ADAMCZYK, Charles 
WERNETH, Hanna MOUSSA, Jeremy TOWNSEND
The abstract can be found on pg. 125  of 
<http://www.icrs12.org/img/Abstracts_ICRS12.pdf>

Kind regards

Dr. Enrico Sartori

> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:56:44 +0100
> From: Franz Schönhofer<franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Mars Radiation Won't Harm Astronauts,
> 	Curiosity Rover Finds
> To:<radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
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> Shane,
>
> What a nice thought to travel and live on Mars in 400 years when I will be
> 468 years old! Nice to send all those billion starving people to Mars for a
> better future! What an impetus for the industry to construct all these space
> ship and especially the infrastructure!
>
> Were you joking?
>
> I think that there are more important and urgent problems on this tiny
> planet than settling on
> Mars. (Irony off.)
>
> Franz
>
>
>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:29 PM
> To:radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Mars Radiation Won't Harm Astronauts,Curiosity Rover
> Finds
>
> Good news for those aspiring to go the distance...hopefully Dr. Hassler's
> scientific report will be publicly available soon.  Or is it already
> available?
>
> _Mars  Radiation Won't Harm Astronauts, Curiosity Rover Finds_
> (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/mars-radiation-astronauts_n_2144742.html?utm_hp
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