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One of the more serious problems that we must solve before humans can fly to Mars and stay there longer is to protect them from the enormous amounts of cosmic rays. Perhaps a specific solar filter will help us in this. Just as sunbathers use a sunscreen to protect themselves from too much solar radiation, maybe one day the researchers of the Moon or Mars will use slightly different creams containing a new substance, specially developed by engineers. In the case of sunbathing in space, we are talking about selenomelanin formed in the process of enriching the natural pigment – melanin with selenium. In addition to the protective magnetic field of the Earth, astronauts will, according to NASA, be exposed to many types of dangerous and harmful radiation, such as X-rays and gamma rays from the sun, but also superfast galactic cosmic rays from outside the solar system. Artistic vision showing the surface of the planet Proxima b DNA damage caused by such cosmic rays can lead to cancer...

One of the more serious problems that we must solve before humans can fly to Mars and stay there longer is to protect them from the enormous amounts of cosmic rays. Perhaps a specific solar filter will help us in this. Just as sunbathers use a sunscreen to protect themselves from too much solar radiation, maybe one day the researchers of the Moon or Mars will use slightly different creams containing a new substance, specially developed by engineers. In the case of sunbathing in space, we are talking about selenomelanin formed in the process of enriching the natural pigment – melanin with selenium. In addition to the protective magnetic field of the Earth, astronauts will, according to NASA, be exposed to many types of dangerous and harmful radiation, such as X-rays and gamma rays from the sun, but also superfast galactic cosmic rays from outside the solar system. Artistic vision showing the surface of the planet Proxima b DNA damage caused by such cosmic rays can lead to cancer...