Probes could have taken samples…but monkeys cannot get through the radiation belts
“but monkeys cannot get through the radiation belts”
That would include Russians too.
Anyone who can view a CRT w/o dying can ‘get thru the radiation belts”.
PAY VERY, VERY CLOSE ATTENTION.
CAUTION: READ VERY SLOWLY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt
“A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet’s magnetosphere.”
Keyword: particles.