Mars Curiosity Rover Power Source
Channel: SpaceWatch99
Date: 2012-01-24

Curiosity is the biggest robot explorer ever to rove Mars. How do you power something like that?

With MMRTG:

Multi
Mission
Radioisotope
Thermoelectric
Generator

...which has been used to power spacecraft for years going back to the Apollo missions.

Credit: NASA/JPL/CalTech