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Posted on December 30, 2017April 27, 2018 by Generation Mars

Radiation and The Martian

Here’s a fun paper that analyzes the radiation exposure of characters in The Martian. The TL;DR is that Mark Watney would have fared better than his crewmates in the Hermes.

Mars, with its thin atmosphere and lack of magnetosphere, doesn’t offer as much protection as Earth, but it’s better than nothing.

http://www.anser.org/docs/The_Radiation_Threat_to_the_Martian.pdf

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