I saw this last week and I was a little dismayed at how beat up the wheels were just from short roving here on earth. There were dents and even holes in the wheels; this does not bode well for long term roving on Mars...
Quote from: fthurber on 04/01/2013 03:39 pmI saw this last week and I was a little dismayed at how beat up the wheels were just from short roving here on earth. There were dents and even holes in the wheels; this does not bode well for long term roving on Mars...Err the holes are manufactured. They imprint "JPL" in Morse code and are used to measure distances. May also help clear sand from the rim inner surface.
Those are not the holes he was talking about. The Science Channel program showed clips of the test rover at JPL. It's wheels have numeros dents and tears from lots of use.
Raw images are now updated. Images in from sol 263. They're uploading new flight software before returning to full science. As I understand it they're going to drill another rock sample before going to Mount Sharp.
Those wheels have been rolling around in that sandbox for litterly years of testing.
Curiosity Rover Report (May 16, 2013): Rover Readies for Second DrillingPublished on May 16, 2013Curiosity prepares for a second drilling and a tutorial on the complicated choreography to get the drill sample to her instruments.
Quote from: catdlr on 05/16/2013 11:03 pmCuriosity Rover Report (May 16, 2013): Rover Readies for Second DrillingPublished on May 16, 2013Curiosity prepares for a second drilling and a tutorial on the complicated choreography to get the drill sample to her instruments.A tutorial? Who is getting a tutorial? Anyone know how to clarify that? I didn't think one typically trained robots unless they're neural network based.