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Doubtful

The atmospheric density of the Martian atmosphere is approximately equal to the Earth's atmosphere at 100,000 feet, or roughly 1% of sea level. Drag and to a lessor degree lift would be the forces at work. Both of those are proportional to atmospheric density, so the forces for a given windspeed would be only about 1/100th of the same windspeed here on Earth. There simply isn't enough force there to flip a MER (thank goodness!).

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