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Solar panels on spacecraft
Spacecraft
operating in the inner
Solar System
usually rely on the use of
photovoltaic
solar panels
to derive electricity from
sunlight
. In the outer solar system, where the sunlight is too weak to produce sufficient power,
radioisotope thermoelectric generators
(RTGs) are used as a power source.
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