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Radiation detectors in space

Six thousand lithium fluoride crystals, each one holding information about radiation in space – this is the payload that astronaut Paolo Nespoli and his colleagues removed from the life-size Matroshka human dummy on the International Space Station and sent back to Earth. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are now starting work on an evaluation of these small radiation detectors.

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