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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

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[–] [email protected] 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