Planetary Sciences Budget // Curiosity’s RAD

15/08/2012 25 min

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Curiosity’s RAD (start time 7:14). To design a successful manned mission to Mars, we’ll have to know a lot about the radiation environment between the Earth and Mars and on the planet’s surface. The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) instrument on Curiosity is designed to make those measurements. We talk with Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Donald … Continue reading "Planetary Sciences Budget // Curiosity’s RAD"