Originally Posted by
munnst
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.
Not sure about that, think the Curiosity panels are down to about 23% of clean panel power because of the dust, with no easy fix in sight..Future martians may need a whisk broom as their national emblem>