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I've read that the relative contribution of planetary magnetic fields is overstated relative to atmospheres. The thickness of Earth's is the same mass as a 10 meter-high column of liquid water; not much radiation gets through that much shielding, magnetic field or no. (I think it's solely muons?)


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