It's not using solar panels. So it's like it can still function with the dust torm. How long will it live? A, for more years. It has a battery that i can recharge and stuff. I don't know ece the details of how it's powered,. But i some sort of decay ome and a, yet, it'll live for a while. M, we'll be able to use it like the really power hungry things less in the future. Right now it's like, ye, chugg it along. Ye, i didn't know that. I thought they were all solar, no. Ya. And the next one ill ill be similar to
The Red Planet. A mysterious dusty orb millions of miles away. Our emergency escape bunker. Alie sits down with Dr. Jennifer Buz to talk about what Mars’s DEEEEAL is, why we send rovers there, good science fiction, so-so science fiction, double egg yolks, the poetry of the moon Phobos and some of the best science dreams perhaps ever recorded. Jennifer is maybe the chillest areologist on this planet and an absolute gem.
You're going to want to look at Dr. Jennifer Buz's website JNNFR.BZ
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