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5.) Assuming you had a dream as Elon Musk, you planned to develop an economic power source of PV for a Mar Land Rover: what is the size of the PV? [10 points] "The Curiosity rover is carrying a nuclear power source to charge its batteries and fuel its onboard systems throughout its planned two-year mission on Mars. The system uses heat from the decay of plutonium-238 to generate 110 watts of electrical power to charge the rover's batteries.". Then you need to design the size of PV for Curiosity to replace the nuclear power (you need to calculate the solar power density availability using assumptions such as a constant orbiting radius, averaging 1 /3 day with sun, PV efficiency is 20% for Mars.)

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