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Comparison of Martian Radiation Environment with International Space Station

NASA/JPL/JSC2003-03-13

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This graphic shows the radiation dose equivalent as measured by Odyssey's Martian radiation environment experiment at Mars and by instruments aboard the International Space Station, for the 11-month period from April 2002 through February 2003. The accumulated total in Mars orbit is about two and a half times larger than that aboard the Space Station. Averaged over this time period, about 10 percent of the dose equivalent at Mars is due to solar particles, although a 30 percent contribution from solar particles was seen in July 2002, when the sun was particularly active.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04258

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  • Title: Comparison of Martian Radiation Environment with International Space Station
  • Creator: NASA/JPL/JSC
  • Date Created: 2003-03-13
  • Rights: JPL
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