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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.
by primax 3y 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 3y 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.