Open AccessHigh‐energy solar particles and human exploration
Author(s) -
Lanzerotti Louis J.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
space weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.254
H-Index - 56
ISSN - 1542-7390
DOI - 10.1029/2005sw000174
Subject(s) - spacecraft , mars exploration program , astrobiology , aerospace engineering , predictability , solar energy , human spaceflight , space (punctuation) , aeronautics , outer space , exploration of mars , solar system , environmental science , physics , engineering , computer science , electrical engineering , quantum mechanics , operating system
An adequate understanding of solar activity, including its predictability for producing conditions that can give rise to high‐energy ions that can penetrate spacecraft and space suits, is woefully lacking if the United States intends to proceed with the vision that has now been articulated for the nation's civil, human‐flight space program: back to the Moon and on to Mars.