Opportunity To Arrive at Endurance Crater; Solar Power Declining
Engineers were looking forward to a plateau in the degradation of solar power on the Mars rovers, but now they are not so sure this will happen. Dust accumulation on the solar arrays has cut a little more than 20% of the power on the Spirit rover after about 114 Martian days, or Sols, of operation...
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