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Loading contentThe electricity that keeps a surface base alive — running life support, recharging rovers, and driving the machines that extract local resources. Solar arrays serve where the Sun shines, but through the long lunar night and the dust of a Martian winter a compact fission reactor offers steady power independent of sunlight.
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