Friday, 27 July 2012

Lunar swirls offer clues to protecting astronauts from radiation



Lunar swirl

Scientists in the UK have solved a long-standing mystery on the Moon -- and their solution could help develop a shield to protect astronauts against deadly radiation.

A team from RAL Space at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire looked at so-called lunar swirls -- patches of pale soil on the Moon, some several tens of kms across, for which there had been no ready explanation before.

By: Paul Sutherland, Sen.com, Edited by: Ian Steadman

via Wired.co.uk

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/27/lunar-swirl

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