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Maintenance of the lander within a temperature range compatible with proper functioning of its components and instruments during all stages of the mission, including of course actually running the experiments, requires thorough modelling and planning. On Mars at night the temperature can plummet to 200K. One energy saving protocol is to carry out those experiments which generate heat within the lander during the night so that the energy dissipated helps to keep the lander warm - a martian off-peak heating plan !
The thermal design of the lander is the responsibility of
the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
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