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BAAO — 2023 Astronomy & Astrophysics Challenge
Question 4
In August 2023, India became the fourth country to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon. The Chandrayaan 3 mission also involved the Pragyan rover, which was fully dependent on its small solar panel to provide it with the 50 W necessary to move around the lunar surface and do experiments. Assuming it was pointing at the Sun the whole time, what was the minimum solar panel area needed?
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Source: British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (BAAO), Astronomy & Astrophysics Challenge 2023. Question text, answer-choice text, and answer were transcribed from the official BAAO paper and solutions PDFs; the explanation and metadata are original.