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KSC-2011-6648
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers use a forklift to offload the shipping cask enclosing the multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG) for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission from the MMRTG trailer that delivered it to the RTG storage facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The MMRTG will generate the power needed for the mission from the natural decay of plutonium-238, a non-weapons-grade form of the radioisotope.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-2011-6648. NASA/KSC, 2011-06-30. Public domain. ID: KSC-2011-6648.
