The Radiation Challenge Module 4 NASA Nasa Form

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it's August 1972 and in Richardson a future NASA scientist is watching TV when the BBC announces the interference is caused by solar activity he didn't know it then but the Sun had just erupted in one of the most powerful solar events ever recorded there's no threat to humans because Earth's magnetic field deflects much of the sun's radiation but the explosions were so powerful that intense radiation disrupted TV signals and caused radio blackouts so what if you were outside Earth's magnetic field on the moon and beyond astronauts face the risk of extreme radiation exposure luckily the intense radiation in 1972 occurred right between the Apollo 16 and 17 missions when no astronauts were in their path as NASA plans missions to go back to the moon and then on to Mars predicting the sun's activity to protect astronauts from space radiation is one of our biggest priorities when the biggest unknown factors about going to space is the radiation hazard from the Sun this is in today studying t