Radioisotope Power Systems STEM

NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge

This art challenge is looking for creative, artistic images to represent NASA's Moon to Mars Architecture, the agency's roadmap for crewed exploration of deep space. If you can create engaging artwork that depicts the exploration segments described below, you could win a portion of a $10,000 prize.

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An exaggerated illustration of the Moon and Mars above the Earth's horizon.

Radioisotope Power Systems: For Kids

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    Power to Explore Annual K-12 Writing Challenge

    The contest invites K-12th grade students in the United States to write an essay about a new radioisotope-powered mission for the agency.

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    Video Library

    Kid-friendly videos that explain how radioisotope power systems, or RPS, work.

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    NASA Kids Science

    NASA's award-winning kids' science website engages upper-elementary-aged children in space and Earth science through interactive games, and hands-on activities.

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Radioisotope Power Systems

Two men work on a grand piano-sized spacecraft wrapped in a gold insulating blanket. A large cylinder, a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, sticks out of the side.

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Artists's concept of a Voyager spacecraft in deep space.

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The rover is upside down in this straight from the back view. The image is centered on a cylinder with fins, the spacecraft's Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator.

Power: Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators

This view looking across the back of the Perseverance rover shows the rover's Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG). A rocky, red landscape dotted with rocks fills the horizon.