Inevitably, Mars rovers or landers get covered with dust and the solar panels no longer function, ending the mission. Why doesn't NASA build in a mechanism to clean the solar panels?

The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.

The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the mythological fire ... The solar-powered rover relies on sunlight to generate electricity. The solar panels cover its top and butterfly-like wings, but ...

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through ... The platform’s solar panels would be swapped for a radioisotope power system that can provide power ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

In the thin, dusty atmosphere of Mars, a sunny day can be ... fatal for NASA’s Opportunity rover. The storm’s dust coated Opportunity’s solar panels, depriving it of power.

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost ... instead of solar panels, making the craft immune to sunlight ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera on June 13, 2022 ... [+] (Sol 467) at the local mean solar time of 10:05:19. When Perseverance landed on Mars on ...