There are no clouds on Mars, so why do you need an inefficient, labor intensive system to complement an efficient, reliable, and predictable one?  NASA rovers and probes have been getting very good results with solar panels, do you think they would have gotten better results if they also had wind turbines?<p>I think you can make a strong case for bringing along hydrazine (or at least hyrdogen to make methane in situ) and&#x2F;or substantial battery banks (if you can&#x27;t manufacture batteries in situ), but the case for wind power is even weaker on Mars than on Earth (and it is quite weak on Earth).