NASA is inviting students to participate in a writing challenge to explore how it powers some of its most famous missions. Hurry! Deadline is April 13.
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks. Perseverance carries a radioisotope power system, visible on the left of the rover (featuring the large white fins).
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Six decades after the launch of the first nuclear-powered space mission, Transit IV-A, NASA is embarking on a bold future of human exploration and scientific discovery.
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RTG-powered spacecraft have explored every planet in our solar system from Venus outward—including the weather systems of Earth—as well as the polar regions of the Sun.
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For more than five decades, radioisotope power systems have played a critical role in the exploration of space, enabling missions of scientific discovery to destinations across the solar system.
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For more than five decades, radioisotope power systems have played a critical role in the exploration of space, enabling missions of scientific discovery to destinations across the solar system.
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