Originally Posted by
jolihokistix
How and where will it shelter in a (dust) storm? Could the rover come along and to some degree protect this rotor craft?
Wasn't one of the surprising things learnt about Mars is the wind and dust is very light.
I seem to recall previous rovers were expected to have a limited life span due to dust build up on the solar panels but this never happened. Which is why the older rovers are still going, or at least went for a lot longer than expected.