After more than 12 years exploring Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has tired feet — err, wheels. Comments (0) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A s fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling ...

Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

Wheel Life. NASA's Curiosity rover has spent over 4,400 Earth days exploring the desolate surface of Mars — enough time, by Sam Altman's reckoning, for the emergence of superintelligent AI.. It ...

The right-middle wheel looks rough, but "is still holding up well despite taking some of the worst abuse from Mars," wrote rover engineer Ashley Stroupe in a mission update on Sept. 24.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

The wheels also have grousers (treads) that protrude 7.5 millimeters from the wheel skin. Since touching down inside Mars’ Gale Crater 12 years ago, the rover has traveled around 20 miles (32 ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been cruising along the martian surface for some time ...

As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling ...