Changes in the solar activity of the Sun could pose an increased risk of radiation to passengers on long-distance aircraft, experts have warned. Researchers announced the warning after studying the effects of radiation on aircraft crew and passengers during long-haul flights. Air passengers have been warned that they could face a greater risk of exposure when the Sun ends its current 'grand solar maximum' - a cycle of heightened solar activity. Experts from the University of Reading say the Sun has been in a grand solar maximum for longer than any such previous cycle in the past 9.3 millennia. When that period ends, however, the resulting changes to the near-Earth space will return our planet to conditions which current forms of engineering will be unfamiliar with.
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