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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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month 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 1 month 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