Images captured by Curiosity's onboard cameras show several large tears in the tire of one of the rover's wheels. However, the damage does not appear to be slowing the roaming robot down.

The harsh terrain of the Martian surface has done an absolute number on NASA's Curiosity rover's wheels, as a new picture ...

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More than a few hackers have put in the considerable time and effort required to build a rover ... Curiosity rover as his guide. Right now, he’s controlling the rover with a standard 6 channel ...

Fossil ripple marks are the clearest evidence of waves and water that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover ... [+] has ever found. Recent ripple marks as seen on Earth. "This is the best evidence of ...

The Curiosity rover has been busy gathering rocks for more than 12 years to workout whether the Red Planet was ever able to support life. It's been exploring the Gale Crater since 2012 ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. A close-up photo taken by the Curiosity rover shows pure yellow sulfur crystals within a rock. NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock ...

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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 set its six ...