Plutonium power
Mars Technica
English - August 12, 2020 20:29 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBScience News mars perseverance rover science space astronomy geology interplanetary science Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It takes a special battery to power a rover on another planet.
Mars Technica is produced by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Cover art by Joey Montoya. Photo illustration courtesy JPL/NASA. With special thanks to Laura Mullane, Scott Faulk, Charles Poling, Arthur Bishop and Camille Dickson.
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