The radiation environment on the surface of Mars - Summary of model calculations and comparison to RAD data

Matthiä, Daniel and Hassler, Donald M. and de Wet, Wouter and Ehresmann, Bent and Firan, Ana and Flores-McLaughlin, John and Guo, Jingnan and Heilbronn, Lawrence H. and Lee, Kerry and Ratliff, Hunter and Rios, Ryan R. and Slaba, Tony C. and Smith, Michael and Stoffle, Nicholas N. and Townsend, Lawrence W. and Berger, Thomas and Reitz, Günther and Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F. and Zeitlin, Cary (2017) The radiation environment on the surface of Mars - Summary of model calculations and comparison to RAD data. Life Sciences in Space Research, 14, pp. 18-28. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.lssr.2017.06.003. ISSN 2214-5524.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lssr.2017.06.003

Abstract

The radiation environment at the Martian surface is, apart from occasional solar energetic particle events, dominated by galactic cosmic radiation, secondary particles produced in their interaction with the Martian atmosphere and albedo particles from the Martian regolith. The highly energetic primary cosmic radiation consists mainly of fully ionized nuclei creating a complex radiation field at the Martian surface. This complex field, its formation and its potential health risk posed to astronauts on future manned missions to Mars can only be fully understood using a combination of measurements and model calculations. In this work the outcome of a workshop held in June 2016 in Boulder, CO, USA is presented: experimental results from the Radiation Assessment Detector of the Mars Science Laboratory are compared to model results from GEANT4, HETC-HEDS, HZETRN, MCNP6, and PHITS. Charged and neutral particle spectra and dose rates measured between 15 November 2015 and 15 January 2016 and model results calculated for this time period are investigated.

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Article

Title:

The radiation environment on the surface of Mars - Summary of model calculations and comparison to RAD data

Authors:

Authors	Institution or Email of Authors	Author's ORCID iD	ORCID Put Code
Matthiä, Daniel	german aerospace center, institute of aerospace medicine, linder höhe, 51147 cologne, germany	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1507-0143	UNSPECIFIED
Hassler, Donald M.	Southwest Research Institute, Space Science and Engineering Division, Boulder, USA and Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, CNRS, Orsay, France	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
de Wet, Wouter	Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ehresmann, Bent	Southwest Research Institute, Space Science and Engineering Division, Boulder, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Firan, Ana	Space Radiation Analysis Group, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA and Leidos Exploration and Mission Support, Houston, TX 77258, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Flores-McLaughlin, John	Space Radiation Analysis Group, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA and University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Guo, Jingnan	Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Heilbronn, Lawrence H.	Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Lee, Kerry	Space Radiation Analysis Group, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Ratliff, Hunter	Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Rios, Ryan R.	Space Radiation Analysis Group, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA and Leidos Exploration and Mission Support, Houston, TX 77258, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Slaba, Tony C.	NASA Langley Research Center, 2 West Reid St., MS 188E, Hampton, VA 23681, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Smith, Michael	Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Stoffle, Nicholas N.	Leidos Exploration and Mission Support, Houston, TX 77258, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Townsend, Lawrence W.	Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Berger, Thomas	german aerospace center, institute of aerospace medicine, linder höhe, 51147 cologne, germany	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3319-5740	UNSPECIFIED
Reitz, Günther	german aerospace center, institute of aerospace medicine, linder höhe, 51147 cologne, germany	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F.	Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Zeitlin, Cary	Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA and Leidos Exploration and Mission Support, Houston, TX 77258, USA	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED

Date:

2017

Journal or Publication Title:

Life Sciences in Space Research

Refereed publication:

Yes

Open Access:

Gold Open Access:

In SCOPUS:

Yes

In ISI Web of Science:

Yes

Volume:

DOI:

10.1016/j.lssr.2017.06.003

Page Range:

pp. 18-28

Publisher:

Elsevier

ISSN:

2214-5524

Status:

Published

Keywords:

galactic cosmic radiation; Mars; particle flux; radiation exposure; modeling

HGF - Research field:

Aeronautics, Space and Transport

HGF - Program:

Space

HGF - Program Themes:

Space Exploration

DLR - Research area:

Raumfahrt

DLR - Program:

R EW - Space Exploration

DLR - Research theme (Project):

R - Vorhaben MSL-Radiation (old), R - Vorhaben Strahlenbiologie (old)

Location:

Köln-Porz

Institutes and Institutions:

Institute of Aerospace Medicine > Radiation Biology

Deposited By:

Kopp, Kerstin

Deposited On:

17 Jul 2017 13:22

Last Modified:

22 May 2024 08:30

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