Unless it gets another lucky dust devil cleaning, the eventual demise of the Opportunity Mars Rover will be due to the dust buildup on the solar panels. They HAVE been lucky with the wind-cleaning events a couple of times, but they're going to have to get luckier now.
Dust Mars Rover self-portrait
Because, amazingly, almost everything else on the Rover is still functioning (and they've come up with ways to work around the glitches that have developed after eight years on Mars), it would be too bad if the dust was what finally ended the mission.
C'mon, dust devils!
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