Mars project to simulate radiation exposure
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

University Park, Pa. -- Monitoring radiation from solar flares to ensuring that fellow crew members on the surface receive ample warning is only one of the tasks for Irene Schneider Puente, graduate student in geosciences at Penn State, as a member of the Crew 61, a two-week simulation of Martian exploration.

Scheduled for two weeks in April, Crew 61 is sponsored by the NASA Spaceward Bound Program and the Mars Society and funded by NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. The last of the 2006-2007 season's missions, the focus of the two weeks is "Emergency Preparedness” and includes simulation and protocol development for EVA (Extravehicular Activity) emergencies, radiation poisoning prevention, EVA radiation emergency protocols and an emergency air quantity/location study.

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