On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:53:58 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

In article ,
.spade. wrote:
A windscreen wiper?

Could be a really bad idea if the Martian dust is as abrasive as lunar dust.

....It might not be, considering that it does get blown around by the
Martian air, unlike the soil on the airless Moon. Then again, how
difficult would it have been to have brought along an air compressor
to blow the dust off?

OM

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