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Questions regarding the van Allen radiation belts around the Earth.

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Can we survive Van Allen belt radiation?

No, it is not impossible. 9 Apollo missions sent humans through the Van Allen belts, and the astronauts survived just fine. The radiation levels in the Van Allen belts are high, about 1000 times highe …
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How quickly do the Van Allen radiation belts degrade solar panels?

It turns out that IEEE Xplore Nuclear Science published a paper on the subject of solar cell degradation in the Van Allen belts. While I can't read the paper, it mentions that N-P solar cells (The mos …
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