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To: Simon Green

I think it is nifty that it is solar powered though the sun light is about 4 percent as strong out there as it is here.


11 posted on 06/26/2018 1:00:34 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: DungeonMaster
I think it is nifty that it is solar powered though the sun light is about 4 percent as strong out there as it is here.

Only the latest generation of solar power cells are efficient enough, previous probes needed nuclear power. Still do, for anything beyond Jupiter.

12 posted on 06/26/2018 1:02:58 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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