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

[Dan McCarn]

Hi David:

Mars does have an iron-nickel core but it has lost it's magnetic field up
to 3-4 billion years ago billion or so years ago, thus no protection from
CME events.

Earth may be luckier in this regard since the early history of the earth
included a massive impact with a planet-sized body, creating the moon and
possibly adding significant iron for the core to keep us warm and
magnetic...

Dan ii


On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM, <dlawrencenewyork at aol.com> wrote:

> The curious part of this to me was when the AOL originally posted the link
> (The Huffington Post) it included in the teaser "Why Man May Never Walk on
> Mars".
>
>
> Now this article also ignores the spikes in high energy protons levels
> from the Sun due to coronal mass ejections. With no iron core this would
> not be deflected by the planet, let alone on the mission.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
> To: radsafe <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
> Sent: Sun, Nov 18, 2012 9:56 am
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Mars Radiation Won't Harm Astronauts, Curiosity
> Rover Finds
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> From: ProRadCon at aol.com
> 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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> Manual Link:
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