During high periods of solar activity, the sun flings off massive chunks of changed plasma which can severely damage technological infrastructure on Earth. Credit: NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams. On a hot day in August 1972 toward the end of the Vietnam War, dozens of ...
H Wintz - 《Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: 3发表: 1931年 Risks due to X-ray Flares during Astronaut Extravehicular Activity [1] Solar hard X-ray flares can expose astronauts on lunar and deep space extravehicular activities (EVAs) to dangerous acute biological doses. We...