Curiosity wheels taken yesterday, showing the damages caused during the 13 years it has been on the Red Planet

Fun fact: the rover would be able to drive perfectly fine even if the inner 2/3 of the wheel rim totally breaks off. There is enough toque in the wheel motors to pull the entire rover up a vertical wall if only one of them was operating. It could drive fine if the wheels were square. https://bsky.app/profile/elakdawalla.bsky.social/post/3mhri6ip3fk2g . NASA's Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm, on March 23, 2026, Sol 4844 of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, at 08:00:54 UTC. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS​ . Raw data https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=3&mission=msl submitted by /u/Neaterntal to r/spaceporn [link] [comments]

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