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dresda99
Vabbè ma mi sembra anche giousto vista questa crisi mondiale economica, un pò di risparmio ci vuole. Voi che ne pensate?
Se come dice l'articolo costera` 400 milioni di dollari in piu,`sai che risparmio
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Quello che mi stuzzica di questo rover e` la rinuncia dei panneli solari in favore del nucleare, che in ambiente marziano fa una bella differenza
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http://www.space.com/businesstechnology ... 40211.html :
At present, Boeing Co. and Lockheed-Martin are working on competing nuclear battery designs for the laboratory. Boeing's Canoga Park, Calif.-based Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power unit is designing a so-called Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG), a more powerful version of the RTGs that powered NASA's Viking 1 and 2 Mars landers in the 1970s.
While the Multi-Mission RTG would not be as powerful as the RTGs aboard NASA's Cassini Saturn probe, it is designed to be more flexible, adaptable to both the orbiter and lander missions on the space agency's drawing boards.
Given a nuclear power plant that it carries, the rover would be the energizer bunny of Mars by going…and going…and going…for a number of years.