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Mystery Phenomenon Cleans Mars Opportunity Rover

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-labor's-just-really-cheap-there dept.

vg30e writes "It seems that some unexplained phenomenon has cleaned the dirt off the Mars Opportunity Rover. While the Spirit rover is down to 400 watt-hours per day due to the dirt obscuring its solar panels, Opportunity has gone from 500 watt-hours to 900 per day. I wish this phenomenon would clean the snow off my car."

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  1. Re:Wipers? by Bobas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That would add additional complexity to the spacecraft, especially as it was not expected for the rovers to last past the period of 90 days.

  2. Conspiracy: Mars by francisew · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After the whole mooon landing hoax ;), NASA still hasn't learned to keep the janitors from having keys into their top-secret sound-stages. One of the cleaners saw the poor little dirty machine, and decided to give it a thorough scrubbing.

    I hope they take better care of the dolphins with lasers on their heads.