However, the thinner atmosphere at higher altitudes affords less protection from cosmic rays.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-supercdms-detector-towers-ready-dark.html

In Marvel’s Fantastic Four comics, four humans were exposed to cosmic rays during a scientific mission, resulting in them gaining superhuman abilities.

Source: https://www.monstersandcritics.com/celebrity/mila-kunis-could-play-the-thing-in-marvels-fantastic-four-movie/

One student experiment investigated cosmic rays, which are high energy particles that flow into our solar system from outer space.

Source: https://www.lep.co.uk/news/people/uclan-students-sent-a-test-balloon-100000ft-above-the-earths-surface-and-into-near-space-4137050

Such an unrelated object that scientists initially thought they were dealing with an atom, an anomaly, perhaps a stray sliver of cosmic rays that hit Hubble’s cameras.

Source: https://houstonianonline.com/how-a-giant-black-hole-hurtles-through-the-universe-and-creates-a-stream-of-stars/

That would lead to an increase in cosmic rays over the South Atlantic.

Source: https://columbuspost.com/south-atlantic-anomaly-are-cosmic-rays-high-in-flights-to-brazil/