THINK.......
You got the news about Curiosity landing in MARS. Qudos to all who are involved in this success. Here is the question:
What was the fuel used in that vehicle which travelled for 9 months and so many million Kms? I am sure there was no refulleing done on the way!! Can the scientists device similar technology for our Cars? You mean just buy a fuel cell and drive for the life of the car.
If this happens then what will happen to GCC?
Your thought...........
RDX I believe which is a explosive material and banned.
Optimus_Prime said plutonium energy ...
Pearl Q,
Curiosity like voyager in the past uses very little quantity of plutonium which is extremely radio active in nature, but I guess the Space team figured out a way to safely pack it as its fuel supply.
unfortunately solar energy cannot be used exetensively in mars because
a) of the distance from sun
b) Scientist needs to figure out first even if they get the sun rays whether the dust storm from mars can hamper its use
Well about alternate fuel there are various options available , but it mass scale availability is yest to be seen
a) Hydrogen power
b)nuclear power (cold fission) if scientist can make some break through in the BERN
c) Solar
d) Geo Thermal
e) loog at long life reusagl batterries e.t.c
c)
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Pearl Q,
Curiosity like voyager in the past uses very little quantity of plutonium which is extremely radio active in nature, but I guess the Space team figured out a way to safely pack it as its fuel supply.
unfortunately solar energy cannot be used exetensively in mars because
a) of the distance from sun
b) Scientist needs to figure out first even if they get the sun rays whether the dust storm from mars can hamper its use
Well about alternate fuel there are various options available , but it mass scale availability is yest to be seen
a) Hydrogen power
b)nuclear power (cold fission) if scientist can make some break through in the BERN
c) Solar
d) Geo Thermal
e) loog at long life reusagl batterries e.t.c
c)
These space vessels dump some of their fuel containers after using the fuel to boost their vessel off earth right? Then in space there is nothing which decelerates the vessel on its way to Mars, thus using less fuel per km from then on to get to target site. Scientists using similar technology (who want to create a similar fuel cell device to use for cars) would have to factor in gravity and friction which decelerates our cars plus general non littering road rules. Also our much smaller budgets to buy such a fuel cell for our personal cars. I am optimistic though that the fuel device you are thinking of is quite probable in the near future as fuel efficiency and sustainable energy sourced batteries/fuel devices improves every year.
I deliberately left out the fuel needed to escape earth's gravity as that would be on a separate rocket. Just talking about the large distance between earth and mars.
No moza, much fuel is required to escape the earth's gravitation and then once its put into Mars' orbit not much fuel is required. Fuel would then be required in the forward thrusters during landing of the Rover.
Rover would need fuel on the surface of Mars to overcome the rolling friction on the surface. The fuel used in the rover to move around may have been methane and assisted by solar.
Different enviroment. No wind or atmospheric resistance in space. One hydrogen molecule per square metre does not produce much drag...... So once you kick start the probe in the right direction it will keep going at roughly the same speed until it gets there