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Old 02-February-2008, 05:30 PM
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The Van Allen belts don't expose a spacecraft passing through them to any more radiation that it would get in a medical chest x-ray.
Don't tell the HBs that! They'll scream and rant until they use up the oxygen in the room.

The figure you give would be for normal, ie, non-solar flare type conditions, yes? I imagine during heavy solar activity, the amount goes up. Yes?

In any case, given that the film was in a metal box, the radiation wouldn't have harmed the film anyway.
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