Raising challenges for future space missions, scientists announced on Friday, September 25, that the next generation of lunar explorers will face two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In addition to the potential health hazards that lunar researchers need to wear thick-walled suits for protection, a study of the first complete measure of radiation exposure to the lunar surface has been put forward, based on readings obtained from a Chinese lander in the far reaches of the Earth’s natural satellite. .
This could be said to be ‘important’ information not only for NASA but also for other agencies that aim to send astronauts to the moon. Published in the American Journal of Science Advances Study, A Chinese-German team of scientists has reported information based on radiation readings collected by Chinese landers.
Thomas Berger, a physicist at the German Space Agency’s Institute of Medicine, called the findings a “great achievement” and said he would provide experts with “benchmark” data for radiation from the moon. Astronauts will receive 200 to 1000 times more radiation from the lunar surface than humans experience on Earth.
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‘The sky is a source of radiation’
Robert Weimer-Schweingruber of the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel, Germany, noted that lunar researchers would be exposed to five to ten times more radiation than passengers on a trans-Atlantic Airlines flight because of the high risk of cancer. He not only noted the inability of humans to withstand such radiation but said that the only way astronauts can protect themselves from danger is to stay away from the sky. “The less you see the sky, the better,” added Wimmer-Schweingruber, because it is the primary source of radiation.
A.P. “The difference is, we don’t fly as far as astronauts are looking for the moon,” Wimmer-Schweinger quoted by Wimmer-Swingruber as saying, “Humans don’t really make up for these radiation levels. . And should protect themselves when on the moon. ”
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