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The mission-wrecking perils for the 2003-2004 Mars missions.
Jacob Samorodin — (archived)

Condition will again be ideal
for global duststorms on Mars during the period 2003-2004. Mars will be closer to Earth, and the sun, than in 2001, 1971,
or 1956. Global duststorms enveloped
Mars, back then...
That presents mission-terminating perils to the three spacecraft intended to land on Mars in 2003 [Beagle-2, and the two NASA Mars Rovers].
It's not so much the fact that the 200-300mph winds on Mars during those martian duststorms may wreck the three Mars landers in 2003-2004, though I can't exclude the slight possibility: 300-400mph martian winds would be the equivalent in force to 20-30mph terrestrial winds by my calculations.
But the real issue is...how will a global martian duststorm affect the
solar-panels on the Beagle-2, and the two NASA Mars Rovers?...I'm a little
apprehensive.

Jacob

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