NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

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4312 - Wheel check (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by paulhammond5155@lemmy.world to c/curiosityrover@lemmy.world

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It's had a tough journey, but it's still trucking

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[–] Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The metal is as thin as possible to carry a heavy rover. Then it's just a matter of driving over rocks for 12 years now!

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wonder if it's something they will consider changing in the designs of future rovers.

Maybe one small change would increase the weight a fraction, but allow for 5-10 more years of service.

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Wonder if it’s something they will consider changing in the designs of future rovers. They already changed the design for the Perseverance rover, it has more grousers and a different pattern for those grousers. those redesigned wheels have been on Mars for 1279 sols (so far) and have zero damage.

Here's a short video clip that goes over the changes https://youtu.be/ov_TXfWBf-4?t=68