کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5498100 | 1533310 | 2017 | 28 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The charged particle radiation environment on Mars measured by MSL/RAD from November 15, 2015 to January 15, 2016
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موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه
علوم زمین و سیارات
علوم فضا و نجوم
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چکیده انگلیسی
The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on board the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover has been measuring the radiation environment in Gale crater on Mars since August, 2012. These first in-situ measurements provide an important data set for assessing the radiation-associated health risks for future manned missions to Mars. Mainly, the radiation field on the Martian surface stems from Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) and secondary particles created by the GCRs' interactions with the Martian atmosphere and soil. RAD is capable of measuring differential particle fluxes for lower-energy ions and isotopes of hydrogen and helium (up to hundreds of MeV/nuc). Additionally, RAD also measures integral particle fluxes for higher energies of these ions. Besides providing insight on the current Martian radiation environment, these fluxes also present an essential input for particle transport codes that are used to model the radiation to be encountered during future manned missions to Mars. Comparing simulation results with actual ground-truth measurements helps to validate these transport codes and identify potential areas of improvements in the underlying physics of these codes. At the First Mars Radiation Modeling Workshop (June 2016 in Boulder, CO), different groups of modelers were asked to calculate the Martian surface radiation environment for the time of November 15, 2015 to January 15, 2016. These model results can then be compared with in-situ measurements of MSL/RAD conducted during the same time frame. In this publication, we focus on presenting the charged particle fluxes measured by RAD between November 15, 2015 and January 15, 2016, providing the necessary data set for the comparison to model outputs from the modeling workshop. We also compare the fluxes to initial GCR intensities, as well as to RAD measurements from an earlier time period (August 2012 to January 2013). Furthermore, we describe how changes and updates in RAD on board processing and the on ground analysis tools effect and improve the flux calculations. An in-depth comparison of modeling results from the workshop and RAD fluxes of this publication is presented elsewhere in this issue (Matthiä etâ¯al., 2017).
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Life Sciences in Space Research - Volume 14, August 2017, Pages 3-11
Journal: Life Sciences in Space Research - Volume 14, August 2017, Pages 3-11
نویسندگان
Bent Ehresmann, Cary J. Zeitlin, Donald M. Hassler, Daniel Matthiä, Jingnan Guo, Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Jan K. Appel, David E. Brinza, Scot C.R. Rafkin, Stephan I. Böttcher, Sönke Burmeister, Henning Lohf, Cesar Martin, Eckart Böhm,