Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World
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The Sudbury Neutrino telescope in Canada. The 12-meter sphere contains 12,000 detectors that watch for the light from neutrinos that streak through the water filling the interior of the sphere. (Courtesy - Stanford Solar Center)
This image appears in the #59: Where did all the Neutrinos go? Technology Through Time article.
Space Weather Fact
The largest, single, challenge for astronauts traveling to Mars will be to overcome exposure to solar storms and radiation.
