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Judi Lynn

(160,684 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2018, 05:50 PM Jun 2018

Dust storm on Mars now covers entire planet

Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 4:56 p.m. ET June 20, 2018

A giant dust storm has enveloped the entire planet of Mars, with dust clouds reaching up to 40 miles high, NASA announced Wednesday.

The dust storm has silenced NASA's solar-powered rover Opportunity since last week, by obscuring the sun. The robot rover has gone to sleep because its solar panels are unable to provide or recharge its batteries.

But NASA's other Martian rover, Curiosity, is nuclear powered and is mostly unaffected by the dust storm.

For NASA's scientists, Curiosity can offer an unprecedented chance to answer why some Martian dust storms last for months and grow massive, while others are small and last only a week.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/20/mars-dust-storm-covers-planet/719308002/

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Dust storm on Mars now covers entire planet (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2018 OP

Time for Swiffer to get the marketing campaign in full gear! True Dough Jun 2018 #1

No worries.. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #2

True Dough

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1. Time for Swiffer to get the marketing campaign in full gear!

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Wed Jun 20, 2018, 05:56 PM

Jun 2018

Pledge too!

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

2. No worries..

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Wed Jun 20, 2018, 06:16 PM

Jun 2018

the person who wiped off the panels last time (and the machine to a dust-free perfection), is still there and will wipe it off again. (see the picture of same online.)

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