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It's powered by plutonium. Rovers with solar panels deal with the dust by waiting for a storm to blow it away.
by joeyh 6y ago
It'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.