Rover Ups the Power Level
"All we can really say is that overnight the solar panels produced between 2 and 5 percent additional power immediately. We're surmising that for some reason dust is being removed from the solar panel and that's increasing the efficiency of the sunlight being converted to electricity." So says Jim Erickson, the rover project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Is it important that he said "dust is being removed" and not, "less dust is accumulating?" Martian wind, maybe? Very tidy little Martian grey guys? Something is definitely happening. Care to speculate?




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