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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Three Maryland researchers have been awarded nearly $1 million by NASA for research on how radiation from the sun could affect astronauts traveling to Mars.
James Drake, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, will receive $357,985 to study the interaction of the magnetic fields of the sun and Earth. The collisions between the two magnetic fields can create radiation that can damage man and machine, he said.
Matthew DeLand, a senior scientist at Science Systems and Applications Inc. in Lanham, will receive $300,000 for his work on the effects of solar flares on clouds that appear above the Earth's poles.
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