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Muons, mutations, and planetary shielding
Life on earth is protected from astrophysical cosmic rays by the heliospheric magnetic and slowly varying geomagnetic fields, and by collisions with oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere. The collisions generate showers of particles of lesser energy; only muons, a charged particle with a m...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9854335/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36688079 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.1067491 |