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Astronauts on a Mars mission would get a big dose of damaging radiation

Nasa's Curiosity rover has confirmed what everyone has long suspected - that astronauts on a Mars mission would get a big dose of damaging radiation.
The robot counted the number of high-energy space particles striking it on its eight-month journey to the planet.
Based on this data, scientists say a human travelling to and from Mars could well be exposed to a radiation dose that breached current safety limits.
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Manned mission to Mars would threaten Martian life

It may take decades before astronauts could set foot on Mars, but scientists have warned that humans could be a danger to the planet's native if they land on it. They say a swarming mass of 100 trillion microbes will travel with every astronaut who may land on Mars.
And while those microbes have evolved over thousands of years to help people do everything from digesting their food to keeping bacteria from killing us, no one knows how they might interact with the Martian environment.
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