Nuclear power glitch for new mars rover
APR 02, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024213
SPACE.com : NASA’s next red planet probe, the Mars Science Laboratory—now dubbed Curiosity—has been years in development and overcome numerous hurdles. Now engineers are taking a close look at the car-sized rover’s nuclear power plant.Engineers preparing the Curiosity rover for its planned launch in 2011 found a slightly faster than expected degradation rate in the rover’s multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
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