Sentences with phrase «in space radiation»

Belli, M., Sapora, O. & Tabocchini, M. A. Molecular targets in cellular response to ionizing radiation and implications in space radiation protection.

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According to Discover magazine, physicists can offer us the ability to test whether we live in our own virtual Matrix by studying radiation from space.

Only astronauts are more exposed: Ten days in space delivers about 4.3 mSv to the skin alone, which is 4.3 years» worth of cosmic radiation on the surface of Earth.

But space posed a unique design constraint on Stearns: solar radiation and extreme environmental temperature shifts would melt and degrade the paint and ink he worked with, making them hazards to the delicate optical hardware in the satellites.

So that's basically saying that the New Horizons spacecraft is powered, computationally speaking, by an aging processor that's been «radiation - hardened» for use in space.

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An alternative route of abstraction, by thinking away all energy that sets up physical relations, and thinking this away by having substances too dense to release radiation, also leads to a space concept that may be approximated somewhere in nature.

At present, the density of ordinary baryons and radiation in the universe is estimated to be equivalent to about one hydrogen atom per cubic metre of space.

The first suggestion that the flow existed came in 2008, when a group led by Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, scrutinised what was then the best map of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the big bang's afterglow.

[6] Cosmic - infrared background radiation, similar to the more famous cosmic microwave background, is a faint glow in the infrared part of the spectrum that appears to come from all directions in space.

It is the first DNA analyser to head into space, and may eventually allow astronauts to directly monitor changes to their genetic code caused by the harsh radiation environment in orbit.

But scientists still don't know how the human body will react to sustained low - level doses of radiation inherent in space travel.

In fact, it is the accumulation of radiation dose that is the limiting factor for the maximum length of manned space flights.

He has seen evidence of these warm dusty rings in infrared radiation picked up by the Spitzer space telescope.

Some models suggest that a flip would be completed in a year or two, but if, as others predict, it lasted decades or longer we would be left exposed to space radiation.

High - power gallium nitride - based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are appealing in this regard because they have the potential to replace bulkier, less efficient transistors, and are also more tolerant of the harsh radiation environment of space.

Biochemists have managed to synthesise 10 of them in experiments that simulate lifeless prebiotic environments, using proxies for lightning, ionising radiation from space, or hydrothermal vents to provide the necessary energy.

Can we build a machine that will work after 71,000 years in space, including millennia of intense ionizing radiation?

«These data are a fundamental reference for the radiation hazards in near Earth «geospace» out to Mars and other regions of our sun's vast heliosphere,» says CRaTER principal investigator Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).

And astronauts had to take temporary shelter in a radiation - protected section of the International Space Station.

Shielding can't entirely solve the radiation exposure problem in deep space, but there are clear differences in effectiveness of different materials.»

The Van Allen belts, two giant donuts of radiation encircling Earth, play a vital role in the planet's resilience, and susceptibility, to space weather.

The GPS data, which dates from December 2000, fill a hole in studies of space weather, the complex interplay of Earth's magnetic field with bombarding radiation from cosmic rays and the sun.

Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of nuclear reactors, using ion implantation in semiconductor technology, and designing reliable devices in space.

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

Ultraviolet radiation could strip not only the water vapor from a habitable M dwarf planet, but also the oxygen and nitrogen in just tens of millions of years, astrophysicist Vladimir Airapetian of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues suggested in the February 10 Astrophysical Journal Letters.

«This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter, and dark radiation,» said study leader and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and The Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland.

The measurements have also played a vital role in UNH space scientists» efforts to develop both the first Web - based tool for predicting and forecasting the radiation environment in near - Earth, lunar, and Martian space environments and a space radiation detector that possesses unprecedented performance capabilities.

- The giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network — which perform radio and radar astronomy research in addition to their communications functions — were tasked with observing radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by comet dust.

The papers in a special issue of the journal Space Weather document and quantify measurements made since 2009 by the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) radiation detector.

Current astronauts are not as exposed to the damaging effects of radiation, Davis says, because the International Space Station flies in an orbit low enough that the Earth's magnetic field continues to provide protection.

Manufactured in bulk, low - cost Sprites could be deployed and networked by the hundreds or thousands to create space - based sensor arrays of unprecedented breadth, with each craft so lightweight that it could operate without propellant, shifting or maintaining its orbit solely through the radiation pressure of starlight or the forces imparted by a planet's magnetic field.

Johns Hopkins scientists report that rats exposed to high - energy particles, simulating conditions astronauts would face on a long - term deep space mission, show lapses in attention and slower reaction times, even when the radiation exposure is in extremely low dose ranges.

When the team looked at the overall balance between the radiation upward from the surface of the ice sheet and the radiation both upward and downward from the upper levels of the atmosphere across all infrared wavelengths over the course of a year, they found that in central Antarctica the surface and lower atmosphere, against expectation, actually lose more energy to space if the air contains greenhouse gases, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming Geophysical Research Letters.

Hess concluded that a powerful radiation originates in outer space and enters the Earth's atmosphere, diminishing in intensity as it passes through the air.

So when NASA launched a gamma - ray telescope into space in 2008, astronomers figured the high - energy radiation it detected would point the way to easily identifiable supernova remnants, black holes, and other extroverted objects.

The findings, if found to hold true in humans, suggest it may be possible to develop a biological marker to predict sensitivity to radiation's effects on the human brain before deployment to deep space.

To conduct the new study, rats were first trained for the tests and then taken to Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in Upton, N.Y., where a collider produces the high - energy proton and heavy ion radiation particles that normally occur in space.

«If breakdown weathering occurs on the moon, then it has important implications for our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system, especially in extremely cold regions that are exposed to harsh radiation from space,» says coauthor Timothy Stubbs of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Cespace,» says coauthor Timothy Stubbs of the NASA Goddard Space Flight CeSpace Flight Center.

Currently a professor of materials science and engineering at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, he says it was his job to «examine how radiation in space affects solar cells and semiconductors.»

This event happens as the system emits gravitational radiation, tiny ripples in the fabric of space - time.

Gamma - ray bursts are mysterious flashes of intense high - energy radiation that appear from random directions in space.

This so - called Cherenkov radiation offers clues about supernovas and other explosions in space.

NASA now has four space missions in the works that will use the gravitational weirdness of libration points for everything from mapping the whisper of radiation left over from the Big Bang to photographing Earth 24 hours a day.

Scientists knew that something in space accelerated particles in the radiation belts to more than 99 percent the speed of light but they didn't know what that something was.

Scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near - Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe called the Van Allen radiation belts.

When astrophysicist Robert Petre of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues analyzed the ASCA data, they found that most of the Lupus supernova remnant had spikes in its X-ray spectrum — the radiation peaked at a few wavelengths.

Black holes can also send stuff back out, emitting radiation that is, in a sense, plucked from empty space.

That radiation could make ice act like a liquid and help organic molecules form in space.

Their nanoparticles also have potential to protect astronauts from long - term exposure to radiation in space and perhaps even slow the effects of aging, they reported.