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| The electricity needed to operate NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is provided by a power system called a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG. The MMRTG will be inserted into the aft end of the rover between the panels with gold tubing visible at the rear, which are called heat exchangers. Essentially a nuclear battery, an MMRTG uses the heat from the natural radioactive decay of plutonium-238 to generate about 110 watts of electricity at the start of a mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech |
25 July 2020
Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com &
RocketSTEM
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s
next mission to the Red Planet the $2.7 Billion Mars 2020 Perseverance rover now has the nuclear
power it needs to explore for many years to come – and the liftoff is targeted
for July 30 from the Florida Space Coast is now just days away.
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