[ExI] Radiation damage could stop manned trips to Mars

[Stephen Van Sickle]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:02 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

The experiment used very low doses of charged particles


30 cGy is not a low dose, especially of heavy ions.  It is on the order of
the full dose would get on a trip to Mars, but in minutes instead of years.


steve
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