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Covered in Martian Muck, NASA’s InSight Lander Tries to Tidy Itself Up – Gizmodo Australia
The dust piled up everywhere. Pushed around by the Martian winds, it stifled the InSight lander, whose solar panels — the source of its power — have been coated…
The dust piled up everywhere. Pushed around by the Martian winds, it stifled the InSight lander, whose solar panels the source of its power have been coated in red grime. Now, NASA has announced a step in the right direction for the sedentary probe: By commanding it to drop dirt on top of the dust, they managed to dislodge some of it, boosting InSights power supply.
The counterintuitive means of clearing the panels couldnt have come at a better time. Mars is approaching its aphelion, the farthest…
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