How does the Curiosity Rover Nuclear Battery work?
http://www.about-robots.com/curiosity-rover-nuclear-battery.html
Mars needs rovers! (and it just got a big one)
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/mars-needs-rovers-and-its-getting-a-big-one/
Inside NASA’s Curiosity: It’s an Apple Airport Extreme… with wheels (It’s a 200MHz PPC processor running VxWorks!)
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134041-inside-nasas-curiosity-its-an-apple-airport-extreme-with-wheels