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Perseverance (the rover) has its own "Gaseous Dust Removal Tool (GDRT)" that puffs compressed nitrogen to remove dust from samples before analyzing them, not su
by addingnumbers 4y ago
Perseverance (the rover) has its own "Gaseous Dust Removal Tool (GDRT)" that puffs compressed nitrogen to remove dust from samples before analyzing them, not sure if it can turn that back around on its own panels though...
- space_fountain 4y agoPerseverance does not use solar power. Instead it has a generator using the slow decay of radioactive material. The solar panel problem was more with earlier rovers
- addingnumbers 4y agoWell, that's convenient. It looks like maybe Ingenuity's panel could use a little blast of nitrogen though: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/ingenuity_gif.gif https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_f...
- FredPret 4y agoI unsarcastically love the super-serious names military/space folks come up with for mundane things like a dust blower