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Scientists Make Breakthrough With New Battery For Mars Missions: 'This Work Lays A Foundational Step'
20 Nov 2024 | Abstracted from The Cool Down
"To work - and charge - on the Red Planet, the battery needs to be amicable to an atmosphere that's 95% carbon dioxide with some other gases. It can amazingly use the fumes as fuel. Temperature fluctuations are also a challenge, regularly moving from around 70 degrees Fahrenheit to minus-225...
"And in China, the experts think that successful testing puts their Mars-air battery on a path to developing energy systems that can be used on the far away world."
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