In more bad news for future voyagers to Mars, a team of scientists at the Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) has found that the kind of Galactic Cosmic Radiation (GCR) that astronauts will encounter on long space voyages can cause heavy damage to their gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Using animal tissue bombarded by artificial cosmic ray particles, they found that the radiation produces both immediate and long term health problems.
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