How about an electromagnet on the IDD? Turn it on, wave the IDD and magnet over the panels, move IDD off the rover, turn off magnet, fines drop onto surface!
you missed the point, mars fines will stick to anything with even a remote charge, their mass is probably extremely small, which means that the smallest charge will cause the dust to stick to the arm, or whatever. therefore causing the ability to remove the dust extremely difficult. plus if the dust is magnetic if there is any metal, there is the problem, and no solution.
check your source, it is not a high sulphur content, it is a high amount of sulphuric acid, two totally different things! it has plenty of water, it is just really highly acidic
I know that the minimum temperature is at least high enough to melt lead. which means: don't try to land anything on it, it will either oxidize rapidly, or just plain melt!
They won't fuse all the way to iron normally... Mostly just to carbon
not necessarily, i supose that you haven't ever heard of the CNO process, in which at 10 solar masses or more, the carbon catalyses a reaction which turns two hydrogens into helium, check here
the majority of Jupiter's mass is protium, Hydrogen with a molar mass of one, its too small to have been a star of any size at any point.
though there is evidence to suport that if Jupiter were to have a higher deuterium (heavy hydrogen) content, it would turn into a star, however this is not happening, so don't worry about having no night anytime soon.
Plants are much more efficient at converting light into energy (in the form of sugar) than the most efficient solar panel ever created.
plants cannot be the most efficent solar panels ever created, being that they only have two absorbtion peaks. while, the newer solar panels get up to 30% efficiency. Therefore, because many newer solar panels have more than two absorbtion peak, the newest solar panels, which are in the lab, have excellent performance, and energy conversion rates.
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check your source, it is not a high sulphur content, it is a high amount of sulphuric acid, two totally different things! it has plenty of water, it is just really highly acidic
I know that the minimum temperature is at least high enough to melt lead. which means: don't try to land anything on it, it will either oxidize rapidly, or just plain melt!
hate to remind you, but this is a magnet we are talkign about, not an electric generator, though they are related, they are not related that much
if you want to find a methane planet, go to saturn, neptune, or uranus, which have extremely high percentages of methane.
not necessarily, i supose that you haven't ever heard of the CNO process, in which at 10 solar masses or more, the carbon catalyses a reaction which turns two hydrogens into helium, check here
the majority of Jupiter's mass is protium, Hydrogen with a molar mass of one, its too small to have been a star of any size at any point.
though there is evidence to suport that if Jupiter were to have a higher deuterium (heavy hydrogen) content, it would turn into a star, however this is not happening, so don't worry about having no night anytime soon.