A high-energy-density Mars battery designed for long-term missions
The extreme environmental conditions on Mars, with its 95.32% carbon dioxide atmosphere and significant temperature fluctuations, pose major challenges for energy storage systems on the planet. To overcome these hurdles, Prof. Peng Tan and Dr. Xu Xiao from the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new type of Mars battery, which uses the Martian atmosphere as a fuel sour