ROVER WHEELS: Monitoring changes over time, NOTE: Read back through the thread to avoid repeating misconceptions Options

[DeanM]

[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

[atomoid]

A different view of the two broken grousers: one looks somewhat pushed into the wheel and is slightly severed just outside the hole to the right. Below it a second grouser is severed and displaced quite a bit and is probably the one sticking up in the original image. These are also visible lower down in the next wheel roll image and looks about right to put the lower one in the right place to peek up over the top in the original linked image. its sort of grimly funny how the middle wheels take the brunt of the damage, more load-bearing perhaps..