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Engineers unveil China moon rover

"Unlike the solar-rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used by the US space agency's (Nasa) Mars rovers, the Chinese model will eventually run on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Such devices convert heat from a radioactive source into electricity."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6521443.stm
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