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question on jupiters radiation
I was goofing around JPL's website on the voyeger probes when I read this:
Both Voyagers were specifically designed and protected to withstand the large radiation dosage during the Jupiter swing-by. This was accomplished by selecting radiation-hardened parts and by shielding very sensitive parts. An unprotected human passenger riding aboard Voyager 1 during its Jupiter encounter would have received a radiation dose equal to one thousand times the lethal level. Why is the radiation levels so high at jupiter? |
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The strong magnetic field captures charged particles from the sun and
concentrates them -- similar to the radiation belts that surround the Earth, but larger and more intense. Iceman-Jamie wrote: I was goofing around JPL's website on the voyeger probes when I read this: Both Voyagers were specifically designed and protected to withstand the large radiation dosage during the Jupiter swing-by. This was accomplished by selecting radiation-hardened parts and by shielding very sensitive parts. An unprotected human passenger riding aboard Voyager 1 during its Jupiter encounter would have received a radiation dose equal to one thousand times the lethal level. Why is the radiation levels so high at jupiter? |
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That will work for me, thank you
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