Why would Mars rovers talk to each other?

In my near future of manned Mars exploration, NASA/ESA/etc have a dozen or so rovers spread out around Mars. For scientific purposes, the rovers 'talk' to each other via low and high gain antennae bounced off of several orbiters. The rovers are similar to ours today and far enough away that they will never be near each other. NASA could look up these communications (likely in data form of course), but pretty much don't look into them: so largely autonomous.

Backdrop/storyline - one of our intrepid Astronauts uses this capability to spy on what another Astronaut is doing near a separate rover far away. In a light sense:

What would be the most practical scientific purpose for having rovers communicate to each other without NASA's management? I'm looking for a scientific reason that they're programmed to routinely communicate just between each other.

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