 but of course you uh we have a big atmosphere above us here we can also you know go in houses and have other protective elements but the biggest protector we have is the earth's magnetosphere which helps deflect a lot of these particles but in space you get you know farther away from some of this protect you get farther away from the atmosphere and you start to get you know farther away from the protection of some of the van allen belts although you're still mostly within them so what this means is we worry about radiation