Since its landing in the Gale Crater in 2012, the Curiosity Rover has been traveling across the rocky landscape of Mars, returning vital data on the planet.
Ashley Stroupe, a mission operations engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shared a photo of one of the Curiosity rover’s damaged wheels and stated that the vehicle “is still holding up well despite taking some of the worst abuse from Mars”.
The “hand lens imager” on the rover’s robotic arm captured two pictures of the wheel that were made public.
The pictures were taken of the rover’s six wheels.
According to Ms. Stroupe’s blog post, the photos were taken as part of NASA’s “periodic check-in on our wheels to see how they are holding up on the rough terrain”.
The Curiosity Rover took the first image of Earth and one of Mars’s moons a few weeks ago.
The crew behind Rover shared a post on X with the caption, “POV: You’re on Mars, looking up at the night sky, and you notice…”
