After lasting over double it's original planned mission duration. Once you get that far out finding more science for a lander (not a rover) to do is hard.
> After lasting over double it's original planned mission duration. Once you get that far out finding more science for a lander (not a rover) to do is hard.
That's entirely orthogonal to whether the wind storms eventually clear dust from the panels.
The linked article makes it pretty clear that the opposite is true; eventually the panels are completely obscured by dust, not cleared.
