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Monday, August 20, 2012

Curiosity's Dirty Little Secret

Curiosity's Dirty Little Secret

Need to send a rover to Mars? Stop by a Soviet nuclear weapons plant to borrow a cup of plutonium.

By Geoffrey Brumfiel
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/08/mars_rover_curiosity_its_plutonium_power_comes_courtesy_of_soviet_nukes_.single.html

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