Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars has Implications for Future Human Missions

Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars has Implications for Future Human Missions

05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT

Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human explorers from radiation exposure on deep-space expeditions in the future.