Something (or somebody??) has been regularly cleaning the
Mars rover Opportunity's solar panels during the night,
enabling the device to continue to work much better and longer.
NASA rover team leader Jim Erickson has said that the
unexplained cleaning events have kept Opportunity's solar
panels operating close to their maxiumum daily output of 900
watt-hours. Due to a previous accumulation of Martian dust,
which is heavy and dense, output had dropped to 500
watt-hours per day.
The output of Mars Spirit's solar panels, which are not
getting cleaned, have dropped to 400 watt-hours per day.
NASA has no explanation for the cleaning.
To see NASA's image of the Opportunity photo we've chosen to
illustrate this story,
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doing on Mars--nobody can answer that question!
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