The Mars Exploration Rovers have survived the recent dust storms and are continuing their science work.
As the dust settled out of the Martian atmosphere, the rovers faced a second power challenge with the dust moving from indirectly obscuring solar collection to directly obscuring it as it blanketed the rovers' collectors. Fortunately, and once again, beneficial winds have helped to clear much of that dust from their decks.
There's no direct word at the website about specific power levels, but I'll let you know more as I learn it.
Posted by: Justin Dolske | September 12, 2007 2:18 AM
arkadaş ben bu programdan bişi anlamadım anladıysam arap oliyim iyimi
Posted by: ayhan bilgiç | September 14, 2007 11:25 AM
I've seen this graph of tau, but it's a couple weeks old now. An update elsewhere on there says tau was down to 1.5-1.6 as of a couple sols ago.
NASA's 8/23 update says "Tau (atmospheric opacity) has begun to stabilize this week at around 3.7, resulting in solar array energy between 230-240 watt hours. Therefore in the upcoming week, the team will return to nominal planning."
So, unless something suddenly starts dust to accumulate on the solar panels, it sounds like the worst it over.