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Dust Devil cleans Spirit!!!!!

Started by maurice clark, 03/14/2005 12:04AM
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Hi all,

Just saw this at another BB.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_dust_050312.html

Apparently a dust devil passed over the rover and gave it a cleaning. The power output from the solar panels shot up from 40% below normal to only 7%!

A picture of one of the dust devils is below.

Now why does that never happen to my car!!!!!!!! sad

Cheers,

Maurice



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Posted 03/14/2005 07:16AM | Edited 03/14/2005 07:16AM #1
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Man, they need to look for those and drive toward them every month or so! wink
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