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Argonne Developing Space Battery
Argonne National Laboratory-West in Idaho is developing a radioisotope thermoelectric
generator, or space battery, that can survive
in a space environment for decades, reports the
Pocatello Idaho State Journal.
The space battery may help NASA discover if water
exists on Jupiter’s moons. It will be attached
to a long-range exploration probe and should be
launched by 2012. It will power the probe and
protect its instrments from freezing in space.
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