NASA knew the
New Horizons spacecraft would have to travel almost 10 years on its way to Pluto, so they were sure to give it a decent battery: a
General Purpose Heat Source-Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (GPHS-RTG).
Download + build your own
papercraft New Horizons' GPHS-RTG nuclear battery (from Tomo-Nyan):
https://twitter.com/TOMO_NYAN/status/621625050907566080
(download instructions: click the "creative-hive" link mentioned in Tomo-Nyan's tweet)
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