Question

Given the following data for Mars:

Length of solar day on Mars	24.65 [hours]
Effective day duration Effectieve duur van de dag	11.45 [hours]
Effective incidence angle	40˚
Solar flux Mars	593 [W/m2]

For a Mars airplane, solar cells with an efficiency of 12% are used. What is the area of the solar cells required so that 60 W is available at all times? Battery losses can be neglected.

Final answer was 2.37 m^2. How do we get this value?

Answer 1

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