Submitted by marketrent t3_yfa5pz in space
PiBoy314 t1_iugkezo wrote
Reply to comment by AzPatriotOriginal36 in NASA spacecraft records epic ‘marsquakes’ as it prepares to die by marketrent
I’m sure the cost-benefit analysis was done. Wind has helped clear dust off the panels on Insight and other landers, but didn’t enough in this case. The environment is unpredictable and the mass and complexity they can carry is limited. Something to tilt, brush, repel, or otherwise remove dust could have failed and ended the mission early. Or it could have succeeded and we would have had fewer instruments for longer.
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