The surface of Mars (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles

The surface of Mars

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Yuri Shprits, a UCLA research geophysicist, said limiting the duration of a round trip to the red planet would help reduce the amount of dangerous radiation to which astronauts are exposed.

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