The newer Perseverance rover, which landed in a different Mars crater in 2021, has a modified wheel design. Percy's wheels are larger in diameter, narrower and have curved treads as opposed to the ...

Through it all, the harsh terrain has done an absolute number on the rover's wheels. As seen in a recently shared image taken by Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), giant gashes can be seen ...

during its years on Mars — more than a dozen times the distance that NASA planned for the rover to travel. In fact, the malfunctioning wheel ended up being useful to the mission: In March 2007 ...

The rough terrain of Mars is breaking the wheels of NASA's Curiosity rover. In response ... are key to the new design. The wheel won't be used on the follow-on mission to Curiosity, but it ...

Curiosity Rover uncovers Mars' sulfur stones and spiderweb-like formations, deepening our understanding of its geological ...

Students tested the rovers in a simulated Mars environment meant ... rovers were inspired by the design of ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover and equipped with six wheels, a camera and Raspberry ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover ... the climb, the rover snapped not only a sweeping view of Jezero Crater's interior, but also imagery of the tracks it left after some wheel slippage along the ...