ROVER WHEELS: Monitoring changes over time, NOTE: Read back through the thread to avoid repeating misconceptions |
ROVER WHEELS: Monitoring changes over time, NOTE: Read back through the thread to avoid repeating misconceptions |
May 16 2013, 08:35 AM
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[MOD NOTE: This thread follows on a post by Ed Truthan containing a MAHLI mosaic of MSL wheels taken on sol 275.]
Ed: zooming in on that marvellous underbelly MAHLI montage, there appears to be further (and previously noted) deformation of the wheel surfaces. Damage is most evident in the view of the front-left wheel inner surface. Such wear has previously been discussed and concerns allayed. Nevertheless, the front left wheel surface *appears* to have been punctured. We've only done 700 meters, and have 7000 more to get to Mt Sharp..... Given that more odometry has now accumulated, is any (re-)new(ed) concern valid? DeanM |
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Aug 20 2014, 04:32 PM
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I'm wondering, whether a wheel, severely damaged along the stiffening ring, needs to be the end of the wheel or the driving.
Wouldn't it be possible to intentionally split the inner two thirds completely from the outer third by patiently fatitiguing the remaining cleats (e.g. by driving back and forth over an appropriate rock a sufficiently large number of times); then driving with the outer third of the wheel through the removed inner two thirds, again using Martian rocks as tools? The journey could be continued with the outer third of the wheel. Certainly a (crazy) challenge, but did anyone try? |
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