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'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover
bluenirve writes "'Something' has been cleaning the solar panels of the Mars rover Opportunity. "NASA's Mars rover Opportunity seems to have stumbled into something akin to a carwash that has left its solar panels much cleaner than those of its twin rover, Spirit. A Martian carwash would account for a series of unexpected boosts in the electrical power produced by Opportunity's solar panels.""
weight??? Havent they heard of PLASTICS?? I am sure wipers , even if made of aluminum could not possibly be more than a few ounces or 1/2 a pound. Come on where are these so called rocket scientists, design something light weight spring loaded plastic thingy... even a damn BRUSH attached to a robot arm, and train the CPU/program on earth to learn to brush its dust off. How hard would that be? Oh i forgot, its up to management to approve it.
I love the armchair rocket scientists... Tell ya what, here's a nickel... go bug someone else for a while, son. Let the grownups have a conversation where this hasn't been brought up and dismissed a thousand times already.