Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS)
While the Martian clouds may look like the kind seen in Earth’s skies, they include frozen carbon dioxide, or dry…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Right Navigation Camera (Navcam). The camera is located high on…
New Horizons carries seven scientific instruments and a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. The spacecraft weighs 1,060 pounds.
Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) have provided the power to explore, discover, and understand our solar system and beyond. This graphic…
Radioisotope Heater Units (RHUs) are small devices that use the decay of plutonium-238 to provide heat to keep a spacecraft’s…
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean extracts the fuel element of a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) from storage on the lunar…
Each of NASA’s Voyager probes are equipped with three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), including the one shown here at NASA’s…
Welcome to this informational session all about the NASA Power to Explore student writing competition. It's all about the competition…
To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity,…
