05.11.2008 01:21 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Spaceship "force field" could protect astronauts on trip to Mars

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Transportation While there's certainly no shortage of folks working on sending robots to Mars, there's also thankfully a few researchers focusing on making the trip a bit more bearable (and survivable) for us humans, and a group from a consortium of different institutions now say they've made some real progress on that front. Their idea is to use a portable "mini-magnetosphere," which would protect a spacecraft from harmful solar storms and cosmic rays in much the same way the Earth's magnetosphere naturally protects the planet

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