Exploration architecture
Surface Power Systems
The electricity that keeps a surface base alive — running life support, recharging rovers, and driving the machines that extract local resources. Solar arrays serve where the Sun shines, but through the long lunar night and the dust of a Martian winter a compact fission reactor offers steady power independent of sunlight.
Systems, programs & concepts
Knowledge connections
- Associated withLunar Surface Base
- Associated withRegolith Processing
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.