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Oak Ridge fuel powering NASA Rover on Mars trek The Oak Ridger The world will be watching as NASA’s Perseverance Rover makes its final descent into Jezero Crater on the surface of Mars Thursday — powered by Oak Ridge fuel.  Mars 2020 is the first NASA mission that uses plutonium-238 produced at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Pu-238 — encased in iridium-alloy cladding and insulated by carbon-bonded carbon fiber — is at the heart of the general purpose heat s...

Oak Ridge Today Posted at Video published on YouTube by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Three scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will discuss their work this afternoon on technologies for the Perseverance rover, which uses plutonium-238 produced at the lab and will touch down on Mars on Thursday. Perseverance is scheduled to make its final descent into Jezero Crater on the surface of Mars on Thursday. It’s the first NASA mission that uses plutonium-238 produced at ORNL. The plutonium-...