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Martian Cave Entrances May Offer a Life-Friendly Radiation Shield

Leah Crane of New Scientist reports most of Mars is extremely inhospitable to life, but there may be a workaround. The areas near the entrances to caves should, in theory, be shielded from some of the harmful radiation that bombards the planet’s surface.Because Mars doesn’t have a global magnetic field or a thick atmosphere like…

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