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Friday, July 26, 2019

NASA starts fueling up Mars 2020 rover's nuclear powerplant

NASA starts fueling up Mars 2020 rover's nuclear powerplant: NASA has given the green light to begin placing the plutonium-238 dioxide fuel into the nuclear Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) on the Mars 2020 robotic rover that will provide it with heat and electricity.

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