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Mars has windstorms that eventually clear away most of the dust.

• pengaru 4y ago
  orly? https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mars-lander-losing-power-dust-solar-panels/story?id=84805112 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mars-lander-losing-power-d...
  • primax 4y ago
    After lasting over double it's original planned mission duration. Once you get that far out finding more science for a lander (not a rover) to do is hard.
    • pengaru 4y ago
      > After lasting over double it's original planned mission duration. Once you get that far out finding more science for a lander (not a rover) to do is hard. That's entirely orthogonal to whether the wind storms eventually clear dust from the panels. The linked article makes it pretty clear that the opposite is true; eventually the panels are completely obscured by dust, not cleared.