Through the 2018 breakthrough innovative and game changing big idea challenge nasa is enlisting university students in its quest for efficient reliable and cost effective solar power systems that can operate on mars both day and night.
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Begingroup mcmurdo s generators provide a peak power of 2000 kw for a summer population of 1300 people.
Missions to the surface of distant planetary bodies require power lots of power.
Solar panels will not mount to this.
But for insight 700 watts is enough to run the various scientific experiments it s equipped to do as well as eventually send the results back home.
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Solar panels for the main power a few rtg s to serve as backup and booster for when experiments require the extra power.
Some 700 solar panels are to be installed at the abattoir in marsa in a 250 000 investment to maximise the production of electricity using the least possible space prime minister robert abela.
Then your 60 football fields scale down to 0 06 of a football field or about 10 of the area of the iss s solar panels.
You have to buy a separate rack rail mounting kit then you can attached the solar panel mounts to this item and place it on a pole.
This item does not allow you to mount solar panels to it.
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If an initial mars base has a population of 5 you need about 10 kw.
For us that amount of energy would be enough for a blender.
It will not accept solar panels.
It only serves to connect solar mounting racks to a pole.
So assume expensive panels with all the bells and whistles like heat regulation solar tracking if that s a thing etc.
Since cloud coverage varies around the earth i d like to get best and worst case scenarios no clouds and 100 cloudy all the time respectively to put the average solar power output potential of mars into perspective.