{"id":4709,"date":"2024-10-01T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/nasas-mars-rover-suffers-abuse-while-roaming-the-red-planet\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:00:38","slug":"nasas-mars-rover-suffers-abuse-while-roaming-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/nasas-mars-rover-suffers-abuse-while-roaming-the-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mars rover suffers \u2018abuse\u2019 while roaming the red planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Mars rover has suffered \u201cabuse\u201d while it has been roaming the red planet, according to the space agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Curiosity Rover has been exploring <strong>Mars<\/strong> since 2012, sending back crucial information about the planet as it rolls around the rocky terrain near the Gale Crater where it landed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>Sharing a picture of one of the Curiosity rover\u2019s battered wheels, Ashley Stroupe, a mission operations engineer at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the rover \u201cis still holding up well despite taking some of the worst abuse from Mars\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Two images were released of the wheel which were taken by the rover\u2019s \u201chand lens imager\u201d which sits at the end of its robotic arm.<\/p>\n<p>The rover has six wheels and the images were taken of its right-middle wheel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The images were part of NASA\u2019s \u201cperiodic check-in on our wheels to see how they are holding up on the rough terrain\u201d, according to Ms Stroupe in the blog post.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks earlier, the Curiosity Rover captured a photo of Earth with one of Mars\u2019s moons for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPOV: You\u2019re on Mars, looking up at the night sky and you notice\u2026,\u201d posted the team behind the Rover on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s Phobos, one of Mars\u2019 two moons \u2013 and the tiny evening \u201cstar\u201d to its right is Earth!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rover has covered 20 miles on the planet and is currently in an area called the Gedis Vallis.<\/p>\n<p>Its mission objective is to \u201cdetermine if Mars was ever able to support microbial life\u201d, which would give scientists clues as to whether life could now be supported on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend it completed a \u201chighly anticipated examination\u201d of white stones in the Sheep Creek, also investigating Cloud Canyon, Moonlight Lake, and Angora Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Those place names \u201csound so lovely and soft, and are quite evocative of these pale stones, which stand out so much against the background\u201d, said Alex Innanen, an atmospheric scientist at York University who wrote the latest Curiosity blog post.<\/p>\n<p>The team operating the rover are trying to discover if the rocks contain sulphur, like another sulphuric rock pile that was accidentally discovered earlier this year when the rover cracked it open with its wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Mars plays a big role in plans for humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Space and tech billionaire Elon Musk says he plans to have a self-sustaining human colony on Mars in the next two decades, and will try and <strong>blast off five Starship spaceships<\/strong> to the planet in the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>If those launches go well, he\u2019s aiming for humans to be sent up to Mars by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually,\u201d he said in a recent X post about the missions, \u201cthere will be thousands of Starships going to Mars and it will [be] a glorious sight to see!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Mars rover has suffered \u201cabuse\u201d while it has been roaming the red planet, 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