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Dust on the solar panel seems likely to be a problem after the first landing, unless it's got a clever way to keep it clean. And its got to be tough conditions
by bluescrn 6y ago
Dust on the solar panel seems likely to be a problem after the first landing, unless it's got a clever way to keep it clean.
And its got to be tough conditions for the battery, low temperatures and probably deep discharges to make the most of it.
- joeyh 6y agoIt's powered by plutonium. Rovers with solar panels deal with the dust by waiting for a storm to blow it away.
- bluescrn 6y agoPerseverance is powered by an RTG, but the Ingenuity, the helicopter, is powered by lithium-ion batteries recharged via a solar panel. I'd expect it to kick up a fair bit of dust on landing. But I suppose that's something else that'll behave a bit differently on Mars to what we'd expect in Earth's atmosphere.