Sentences with phrase «harmful space particles»
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The space environment poses significant risks to both humans and satellites due to harmful radiation from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles that can easily penetrate typical shielding and damage electronics.
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Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere protect us on the ground from most of the harmful effects of space weather, but astronauts in low - Earth orbit — or even, one day, in interplanetary space — are more exposed to space weather, including bursts of fast - moving particles called solar energetic particles, or SEPs.
The finding represents a major advance because the high - energy particles can be harmful for satellites and humans in space.
Earth generates a strong magnetic field extending from the core out into space that shields the atmosphere and deflects harmful high - energy particles from the Sun and the cosmos.