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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

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14 years on Mars takes its toll. Sol 4963 wheel-check (July 23, 2026) (lemmy.world)
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'Tis But A Scratch!

Still plenty of miles on these wheels

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[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 9 points 5 days ago

The wheels are built extremely thin (0.75mm aluminium) to save on weight. The rover is incredibly heavy (340kg/750lbs in Mars gravity) on those paper-thin wheels, I'm really amazed it held this far.