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Re:‘My power’s low’: NASA’s Insight Mars lander prepares to ... by phpnode on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:51AM (#34080706)
This idea gets brought up in every thread about Insight's dust issues - there is not enough air pressure on Mars for the downwash to clean the panels. For Ingenuity specifically the problem is that it is also far too far away - it would take over ten years for the chopper to reach Insight.

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