An off-topic question re trip to Mars.
I know that on the Shuttle laptops generally crash a couple of times a day due to gamma and other radiation.
A Mars trip would require quite a few computers of dizzying complexity. How well could they be protected for that length of time.
I know that Cassini has computers, will run for a long time, and apparently they are robust. Don't know how complicated, comparatively.
And I suspect there is a simple solution to this, just don't know what it is.