solar radiation

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Astronauts traveling to Mars will face much greater exposure to solar radiation than people on Earth.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

The visionaries of the early Space Age didn’t worry much about solar radiation, coronal mass ejections, galactic cosmic rays, psychological stress from isolation, and cost-benefit ratios.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Earlier this week, thousands of Airbus planes were grounded for a software update after it was discovered that intense solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

On October 30, a JetBlue-operated A320 aircraft encountered an in-flight control issue due to a computer malfunction apparently caused by solar radiation affecting the equipment.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

A further decrease of 8% in solar radiation, they calculate, would bring the walls creeping together; there would be no men, no land; only ice.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin