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Please post the images of the MERs with "super clean" panels, along with the date the pictures were taken.
Should be simple as that to prove your point. A picture of the panels covered with dust, then a later dated picture of them clean. Would be very easy to prove your point.
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IF WIND CAN BLOW DUST ONTO THE PANELS,
IT CAN BLOW DUST OFF OF THE PANELS.
Deal with it.
Opportunity's work on the north-facing slope below the escarpment will give the vehicle an energy advantage by tilting its solar panels toward the winter sun. Feb. 14 is the winter solstice in Mars' southern hemisphere, which includes the region where Opportunity has been working since it landed in January 2004.
"We are now past the minimum solar-energy point of this Martian winter," said Opportunity Project Manager John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We now can expect to have more energy available each week. What's more, recent winds removed some dust from the rover's solar array. So we have higher performance from the array than the previous two winters."
qmantoo
My bolded text.
"Some dust" in the quote below could be microscopic amounts or it could be larger more significant amounts, we just dont know and they are not about to tell us. They do say that it was more than in previous years, but how do they know unless there was NO dust removed in previous years? Maybe they should give us a winter before and after mug shot of Opportunity taken as a 360 degree panorama.
Source
14 Feb 2014
Opportunity's work on the north-facing slope below the escarpment will give the vehicle an energy advantage by tilting its solar panels toward the winter sun. Feb. 14 is the winter solstice in Mars' southern hemisphere, which includes the region where Opportunity has been working since it landed in January 2004.
"We are now past the minimum solar-energy point of this Martian winter," said Opportunity Project Manager John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We now can expect to have more energy available each week. What's more, recent winds removed some dust from the rover's solar array. So we have higher performance from the array than the previous two winters."