[pvaldes]

Looks like a more efficient and much faster way to explore the area if they can solve the thinner atmosphere but, if their missions are autonomous and it seems that can't be modified in real time, what happens with the mars storms?

I hope that they have a software to take measures if the air pressure or the light levels change suddenly.

Couldn't the differences in temperature between shadowed and sunny areas create turbulences?

[cududa]

Yes to all of this but do you assume no one at NASA has thought of any of this? Weird.

[pvaldes]

Am I assuming that? Where?

This sort of "somebody should have thought about that (and fix it), so don't say it", is probably the safe way for people working in a big company that needs to fit in a hierarchy and please their boss. We aren't in this context and have a bigger margin to freely explore any idea and talk about it. To wonder about the dust storms is a valid question.