On June 3, 2022 NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover took 30% damage of one of its wheel. Rover got 6 operational wheels and one of them is under serious damage. According to NASA, testing showed that at the point when three grousers on a wheel have broken, that wheel has reached about 60 percent of its useful life. Currently one Curiosity’s wheel has damaged 6 grousers. So it is really close to get broken.
Credit: NASA.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Source image of Curiosity’s one-wheel damage: https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1072375/?site=msl
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