Can We Protect Astronauts from Radiation?
People always ask if there's some way to make an artificial magnetic field, you know.. with electricity, or magnets, or something. Shields up!
Can We Protect Astronauts From Radiation? Building An Artificial Magnetosphere (YouTube)
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i wouldn't get in a spaceship to mars if you paid me a million $
Good thing, I don't have a spare million dollars then. ;-)
Huge topic, this. A combo of EM shields for intense solar activity coupled with some sort of advanced, lightweight shielding material could be a reasonable compromise. Apparently, hydrogen rich compounds punch way above their weight when it comes to absorbing energetic particles.
Unfortunately, it really looks like this idea is still elusive.
Wait, hostile xenomorphs? What the ... ok, lol.
You know... from Aliens?
Is the Mars colony shield a Faraday cage, basically? Or is this different?
No, a Faraday cage would stop em radiation, not charged particles.
Cold and/or rainy one, that day, Fraser? lol! ;) Not heard of trapped rads before. I've been thinking about this topic recently, with all the Mars talk and such buzzing around. Thanks for this condensed version! You know how to pack in the info.
The Van Allen Belts are the trapped radiation.