Timeline for If Curiosity had lights, could it drive or work in the evening?
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| Jul 25, 2020 at 4:27 | comment | added | uhoh | Does offer provide any electrical power budget information that might help address At what incline would curiosity require twice the electrical power to drive compared to a flat grade?? | |
| S Jul 24, 2020 at 17:34 | history | suggested | johnDanger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 1, 2020 at 15:35 | comment | added | Hobbes | @Cornelisinspace in addition to Pu decay, the thermocouples degrade, so power is always less than Pu decay alone suggests. | |
| May 1, 2020 at 15:01 | comment | added | Cornelis | "dropping to 54 W by 2025." The half-life of Plutonium 238 is 87.7 years, so after so many years the power should be 57 W. If every 10 years the power would drop by 10 %, the half-life would be less than 87.7 years, so it would be safe to say that within 20 years the power would drop to no more than 80% of the starting 114 W ! | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 15:55 | comment | added | noun | The optimization level they achieved, considering the low power provided by the RTG, is absolutely incredible. I mean, with 100 watt they move a vehicle, runs a computer and several scientific tools.The rover uses a 200 MHz BAE RAD75 processor, with 256 MB RAM, a 2 GB Flash, and it runs VxWorks operating system. | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 16:11 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Jun 15, 2018 at 17:38 | history | edited | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2018 at 12:54 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2018 at 12:51 | comment | added | uhoh | This is an excellent answer, thank you for working this through so thoroughly! | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 10:40 | history | answered | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |