I wondered if the atmosphere was thick enough to use a small wind powered generator to augment solar power, and if a blower/fan could have been added to clean off the solar panels...... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bauman" <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA'sSpirit Rover
With all the drills and cameras on that thing, I wonder why they didn't stick on a skinny little roboarm with a whisk broom at the end, to get the dust off the solar cells. -- jb
--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA's Spirit Rover To: "utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 10:26 PM
Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA's Spirit Rover
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20081113a.html
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