13 January 2016
High-energy theory models questioned as neutron star produces most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected
...observed in 2011 by the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERTIAS), when at the time, researchers unexpectedly observed a burst of very energetic photons...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... suggests that only small reductions to GCR are possible using current technology. Pharmaceutical countermeasures against symptoms of radiation may also prove useful, although no drugs currently exist that mitigate long-term effects. Some medications...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
...mission, the potential impact of a storm like the March 1991 event can be evaluated in terms of the associated radiation damage and solar cell degradation. Figure 2. Degradation of EOR-1’s solar panels (blue) increased from ~3% in a quiet environment...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... in space. Growing plants in a spacecraft Space presents two major sources of stress for plants: cosmic radiation and microgravity. Radiation affects plant growth negatively and increases the risks of genetic mutations, so protecting plants from...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... from asteroids and comets, but have essentially said, ‘There is nothing we can do to protect Earth from solar radiation and perhaps even less from coronal mass ejections. It is up to agencies like Homeland Security [in the US] to address recovery...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
..., therapeutic and preventive effects in the composition of the food ration will significantly enhance protection from ionising radiation and prevent functional changes developing from exposure to extreme factors during flights to the Moon and Mars...
