Space radiation risk limits and Earth-Moon-Mars environmental models

Space Weather

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Cucinotta, Francis A ^a   Hu, Shaowen ^b   Schwadron, Nathan A ^c   Kozarev, K ^c   Townsend, Lawrence W ^d   Kim, Myung Hee Y ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b USRA   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

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EID: 78650568876     PISSN: 15427390     EISSN: 15427390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010SW000572     Document Type: Article

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