{"id":73786,"date":"2017-11-15T20:02:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T04:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/nasa-nuclear-engines-could-provide-power-to-the-first-humans-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-11-15T20:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T04:02:57","slug":"nasa-nuclear-engines-could-provide-power-to-the-first-humans-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/nasa-nuclear-engines-could-provide-power-to-the-first-humans-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA \u2018nuclear engines\u2019 could provide power to the first humans on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-nuclear-engines-could-provide-power-to-the-first-humans-on-mars.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>NASA is set to begin testing a radical \u2018nuclear engine\u2019 that could provide power for astronauts on the Martian surface.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the \u2018Kilopower\u2019 it would use a uranium rector the size of a toilet roll to create heat.<\/p>\n<p>A high efficiency Stirling engine would then convert this to electricity, in a system that works in a similar way to a car engine.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Kilopower engines will use a uranium rector the size of a toilet roll to create heat, then a high efficiency Stirling engine would convert this to electricity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5083265\/Nuclear-engines-provide-power-humans-Mars.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5083265\/Nucle...-Mars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is set to begin testing a radical \u2018nuclear engine\u2019 that could provide power for astronauts on the Martian surface. Dubbed the \u2018Kilopower\u2019 it would use a uranium rector the size of a toilet roll to create heat. A high efficiency Stirling engine would then convert this to electricity, in a system that works in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}