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Mars gets less sunlight on a good day for solar power; the inverse cube law really hits you harder than you'd think. And that's before accounting for the plane
by monocasa 6mo ago
Mars gets less sunlight on a good day for solar power; the inverse cube law really hits you harder than you'd think. And that's before accounting for the planet wide dust storms that can last for months.
We're probably looking at nuclear fission generators to get started, then converting to geothermal at any appreciable (and maybe fusion, inshallah).
- fnordpiglet 6mo agoRegardless, fission, geo, fusion don’t fit well on a rover. The boring company makes the tunnels, Tesla makes the vehicles and robots, and batteries. Likely we will still use solar despite poor relative performance for bootstrap.
- monocasa 6mo agoRTGs do. That's what Perseverance and Curiosity use today.
- utopiah 6mo agoRight, right, all those facts... that's nothing compare to Musk's genius and will! /s