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As We Explore the Solar System, Radiation Will Be One of Our Greatest Threats


can kill. Until Earth developed its ozone layer hundreds of millions of years ago, life couldn't venture out onto dry land for fear of exposure to the Sun's deadly ultraviolet radiation.

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