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NASA's Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars yesterday, 203 days after being launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The rover, which is powered by a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) developed and fuelled in partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE), will explore the Jezero Crater and collect samples that will eventually be returned to Earth.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 20 February 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Perseverance-begins-exploring-on-Mars
A new publication by the US Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration (2021)” seeks to identify primary technical and programmatic challenges, merits, and risks for maturing space nuclear propulsion technologies of interest to a future human Mars exploration mission. The study, undertaken by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Technologies Committee, was sponsored by NASA.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 19 February 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-report-looks-at-space-nuclear-propulsion-for-mars-exploration-8532029
American astronauts plan to take samples of fungus from the walls of the Chernobyl nuclear plant on-board the International Space Station (IIS) for experimentation, Russia’s Novosti kosmonavtiki (Cosmonautics News) reported on 12 February.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 15 February 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschernobyl-fungus-used-in-space-experiments-7773034
Fuelling of a radioisotope-based power system for NASA's Mars 2020 rover has begun. The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator - or MMRTG - uses heat from the natural radioactive decay of plutonium-238 to generate electricity as well as maintaining the rover's systems at the proper operating temperatures.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 01 August 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Mars-2020-rover-gets-radioisotope-fuel