At three Martian sites, the power generated by wind speeds could support a six-crew team.
suggests that Mars has enough to generate power for future crewed missions, Space.com reported.
Researchers had previously disregarded wind energy as a potential source of energy for future missions as the"The biggest challenge for wind energy on Mars is that even fast winds don't carry much force," HartwickBut, despite its low atmospheric density, as per simulations of wind turbine power output demonstrations across fractions of the Mars surface, wind power is unusually significant.
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