THE EVOLUTION OF OXYGEN AND IRON FLUENCE DURING SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO SKIN DOSE FOR EVENTS FROM OCTOBER 1997 TO DECEMBER 2005

One of the primary concerns with space travel is the protection of astronauts from potentially lethal radiation. A major source of potentially lethal radiation is our own sun. During Solar Cycle 23 there were 97 detected Solar Particle Events (SPEs). In order to develop radiation protection guidelin...

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Main Author: Hill, Marcus
Other Authors: Braby, Leslie A.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-275
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-275