Do they send another machine to clean it from debris and the elements? Is it replaced periodically? How does that work?
They die with the dust collecting on them. I've thought about the problem because it's useful for lots of equipment. They could vibrate it with tunnel shafts?
>>17051740https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_eventTl;dr: nobody knows. Probably wind or something. The expectation that the rovers would eventually accumulate too much dust to operate was previously built into the missions lifetime until it was discovered that some phenomenon is cleaning them periodically.Modern rovers use radiothermal generators so this isn't really a problem anymore.
>>17051874>the ayy lmaos are coming over and covertly farting on our rovers to keep them running longer
>>17051874>Tl;dr: nobody knowspeople really swallow that up?more likely, they just send a cleaning crew to clean the rover in the desert they sell as "mars" to globetards
>>17052008why wouldn't they just say it'\s full of dust gotta shut it down they need more money for a new one?
>>17051874the low atmosphere and gravity probably preventing clumping of dust particles
>>17051740They named it "rover" so it would shake itself clean like a dog.
>>17052052it's obviously the lack of water that makes it so much easier to clean up. You see that even in the Sahara and shit, sand just blowing off and uncovering pristine stuff buried underneath, and Mars is far drier still.
>>17052140also, the fact that solar winds penetrate much deeper there, ionizing everything and probably making it easier for the metallic rover to repel these ionized particles
