Radiation climate map for analyzing risks to astronauts on the Mars surface from galactic cosmic rays

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 143-156

  Saganti, Premkumar B ^a,e   Cucinotta, Francis A ^b   Wilson, John W ^c   Simonsen, Lisa C ^c   Zeitlin, Cary ^d  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ACCURACY; ALTITUDE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; CANCER; CATARACT; CLIMATE; COSMIC RADIATION; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTRON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 1842762158     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:spac.0000021010.20082.1a     Document Type: Review

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