re: re: re: Why don't NASA's $800 million Mars Rovers have solar panel cleaners?

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Marcia — 6/9/2003 2:34:14 PM (archived)

Hi, Tom.

It would be wonderful if they could make the panels fold up again or even down so that the Martian gravity would do the work of 'cleaning' or releasing the dust back down to the surface. The dust would just roll right off. Cleaning that middle panel would be tricky though. Maybe that "electrostatic dust mitigator" would work there. Thanks to Alex for the DART link!

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Why don't NASA's $800 million Mars Rovers have solar panel cleaners? - SpaceProjects.com - 6/8/2003 5:22:11 PM
- More importantly, they don't have state of the art autonomous vision systems - E.P. Grondine - 6/9/2003 10:33:15 PM
- re: Why don't NASA's $800 million Mars Rovers have solar panel cleaners? - Nick Hoffman - 6/9/2003 3:52:20 AM
  - re: re: Why don't NASA's $800 million Mars Rovers have solar panel cleaners? - Tom Brosz - 6/9/2003 4:09:38 AM
    - re: re: re: Why don't NASA's $800 million Mars Rovers have solar panel cleaners? - Marcia - 6/9/2003 2:34:14 PM
      - Why don't NASA's $800 million Mars Rovers have solar panel cleaners? - Scott - 6/9/2003 4:19:34 PM
        
        re: Why don't NASA's $800 million Mars Rovers have solar panel cleaners? - Marcia - 6/10/2003 2:38:07 AM
        
        re: Solar panel cleaners - Tom Brosz - 6/9/2003 4:36:25 PM
- re: Why don't NASA's $800 million Mars Rovers have solar panel cleaners? - Chris Vancil - 6/8/2003 10:11:56 PM
  - RTGs are a hard sell to the Greens - E.P. Grondine - 6/9/2003 10:21:16 PM
  - RTGs are a hard sell to the Greens - E.P. Grondine - 6/9/2003 10:11:11 PM
  - RTG's vs. solar panels? Auctioning off the nearly "expired" rovers to private industry - SpaceProjects.com - 6/9/2003 5:23:29 PM
    - Wow, that's really stupid! - alcaray - 6/9/2003 11:25:04 PM
      - re: Electrostatic force. - Marcia - 6/10/2003 10:53:15 AM
        
        No need to duck! - alcaray - 6/10/2003 3:56:57 PM
      - "Arrogance is bliss" -Alcaray - SpaceProjects.com - 6/10/2003 12:46:37 AM
        
        Another search is in order: see if you can find a connection between RTG's and Prometheus (n/t) - alcaray - 6/10/2003 4:00:02 PM
        
        re: "Arrogance is bliss" - Marcia - 6/10/2003 2:17:46 AM
    - Expired? how about auctioning exclusvie 1 day media rights from day one? - E.P. Grondine - 6/9/2003 10:49:53 PM
- Good Question, But Not A Good Way To Secure Future Funding - Mark Eby - 6/8/2003 6:45:08 PM
  - Dust Accumulation and Removal Technology (DART) - Alex R. Blackwell - 6/9/2003 12:36:24 AM
  - But NASA's Mars Rovers are huge. Mass limitations REALLY kept solar panel cleaners away? (n/t) (n/t) - SpaceProjects.com - 6/8/2003 7:31:01 PM

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