Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
@pomarede Send up a can of fix-a-flat?
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@DoubleTreble @pomarede Have you seen all the pictures of sky crane debris that Perseverance and Ingenuity have taken? There's bits of insulation from that thing that got blown all over.
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
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@GalbinusCaeli @nyrath @pomarede
Curiosity was designed to be able to drive even if the wheels are reduced to bare spokes, although not well: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wares-Chancharoen/publication/381094274_A_REVIEW_OF_STRUCTURAL_AND_SYSTEM_DESIGN_OF_MARS_ROVER_CURIOSITY_AND_PERSEVERANCE/links/665bf2aa0b0d2845747c008c/A-REVIEW-OF-STRUCTURAL-AND-SYSTEM-DESIGN-OF-MARS-ROVER-CURIOSITY-AND-PERSEVERANCE.pdf .
And the damage to Curiosity's wheels is why Perseverance's have significantly thicker tires.
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
@pomarede Where is Canadian Automobile Association when you need it?
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This is the best of the best for the cost of this tire?
NASA, you're fired. WE were ripped off, but fleeced by the oligarchy with too much and gas people who don't need another "dollar" for the rest of their lives.@SCALETHEORY @pomarede The mission was designed to last about 700 days, but is now on day ~5000. Undoubtedly the wheels were made as light as they thought they could get away with, because every ounce matters in a rocket launch. If you make something lighter to save weight, it will necessarily be less durable. According to other comments, NASA decided the durability of the wheels wasn't as high as they were hoping and future rovers got thicker wheels, necessarily at the cost of weight.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @pomarede every gram of weight is hideously expensive to thrust, so the thickness matters, alot. This has already lasted 10x what it needed to for the mission to be successful, so id say they designed it very well for durability, nothing lasts forever.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @pomarede every gram of weight is hideously expensive to thrust, so the thickness matters, alot. This has already lasted 10x what it needed to for the mission to be successful, so id say they designed it very well for durability, nothing lasts forever.
@raven667 @pomarede I mean, that's fair enough, but if it had been intended to last longer that would be a problem so easily solved.
If It had torn up more sooner it really would have been bad... The way it could potentially just rip through it seems like it could have failed just with a tiny bit of bad luck even perhaps on day one.
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
@pomarede When 4800 sols old you reach, look as good you will not.
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
@pomarede They should have got Schwalbe Marathons, I'm pretty sure they'd still be going strong
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
@pomarede Better call AAA
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@Ann_Effes @pomarede What's the cost if the whole thing failed on day one?
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
Science! 🤩
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
@pomarede (credit: https://xkcd.com/695/)
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@raven667 @pomarede I mean, that's fair enough, but if it had been intended to last longer that would be a problem so easily solved.
If It had torn up more sooner it really would have been bad... The way it could potentially just rip through it seems like it could have failed just with a tiny bit of bad luck even perhaps on day one.
@nazokiyoubinbou And if it was supposed to feed martian children they should have made it out of cheese. /s
Change the specifications of the mission, and any expert decision can be made to sound foolish. That's called "whataboutism."
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Someone was a bit optimistic in their estimation of wheel durability
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@nazokiyoubinbou And if it was supposed to feed martian children they should have made it out of cheese. /s
Change the specifications of the mission, and any expert decision can be made to sound foolish. That's called "whataboutism."
@grim_elsewhere @raven667 @pomarede How is it a "whataboutism" to say "what if the landscape had been even just a little bit rougher?" The landscape was not really fully known at the time it was landed.
Bear in mind that knowing it would hold up longer is only a valid argument for a time traveler.
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Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission
Image captured 6 hours ago.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #Sol4844 #CuriosityRover #space #science
@pomarede this is so sad!
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@pomarede Better call AAA
@Kintarian @pomarede It's so far away.... It's gonna need AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
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Yeah yeah, got it, but this is still the best of the best? Wow, okay next excuse.
Seems a wheel from a lawnmower/shopping cart (made lighter with the most expensive metals/plastic) would last longer.
How about putting what was wasted in research for anti-magravity/ion/alternatives or just half/quarter/eighth of what CERN has spent.Common sense, its societies new superpower. Rockets don't even make sense worried about weight.
