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This article explain how we determined which angles the radiation mainly comes from on the Martian surface.

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This has implications for future manned missions to Mars.

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Another example of something that looked simple and straightforward but turned out to be way more complicated than I thought :-)

Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber
Kiel University

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This page is a summary of: On determining the zenith angle dependence of the Martian radiation environment at Gale Crater altitudes, Geophysical Research Letters, December 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/2015gl066664.
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