Comments on: New serious damage to Curiosity’s wheels? https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:04:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/#comment-1369696 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:04:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90316#comment-1369696 How about they only designed them for the length of the original mission?
As thin as possible to hold up the craft and still role.
This damage was happening a few months after mission start.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/#comment-1369693 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:36:35 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90316#comment-1369693 What about undeflected solar wind?

]]> By: M Puckett https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/#comment-1369682 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:06:48 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90316#comment-1369682 When you think of the total milage on those wheels, it isn’t really that much. I wonder if that’s totally abrasion or if there is some kind of chemical weakening by compounds in the soil too?

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/#comment-1369681 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:55:52 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90316#comment-1369681 They need to adjust the track tension says the Chieftain

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/#comment-1369646 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 01:23:56 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90316#comment-1369646 Unfortunately, “irony” isn’t a color like “silvery” only rust colored! They paid so much attention to making those wheels as light as possible, and ironically they’re now getting lighter all the time by themselves!

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/#comment-1369642 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:34:19 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90316#comment-1369642 In reply to Kyle.

Kyle: They did.

]]> By: Kyle https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/#comment-1369641 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:22:42 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90316#comment-1369641 I hope they addressed the wheel issue when they design Perseverance.

]]> By: pawn https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-serious-damage-to-curiositys-wheels/#comment-1369624 Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:44:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=90316#comment-1369624 A number of swear words come to mind.

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