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by utoku 5059 days ago
According to wikipedia article, the power source is designed to create 125 watts of electrical power from 2000 watts of thermal power. (It might look inefficient, but they are using the heat in all parts of the rover.)

For comparison, that might be how much your graphics card might be consuming while you are reading this article.

I guess that also means it is going to move very slow.