@@SpaceMog it does very occasionally, buckets down. Check out the very occasionally flowing Kuiseb River on Google Earth, normally dry but flows often enough to stop the sand dunes crossing the river to the aforementioned desert pavement (Namib-Naukluft National Park).
Nice your channel is very informative. Always reports on very underrated but important science news overlooked by mainstream science news sources. Subscribed 👍
we still don't know why the martians shot down our helicopter, now they're leaving IED's on the highways? PS well done spaceX, i told them it would work!
we need to send more helicopters! And yes, how fun was that to watch? Can't wait to see what the do with starship next time, seems too big to land at sea, so will mechazilla catch it too ?
@@SpaceMog well presumably starship will be on some kind of mission, so it won't be coming back, but if they get this down to an art (two launches every day will be art) then they could catch the booster, unload it and catch the ship too. love your show, hope it grows, sabine takes all the glory eh?
@@SpaceMog Yes, it will catch the booster, put it back on the launch pad, then catch Starship and stack it on the booster. After refueling they can go back to orbit. 1-2 flights a day. This will be needed to refuel the propellant depot. Everyone is worried about it taking 10 refueling flights for HLS. They will be able to do that in a week. Less with a second tower.
IIRC the first damage happened pretty suddenly and very early on in the mission. It was already quite severe from the get go. All careful driving since then.
Sometimes I wonder if a better form of locomotion for a rover might be legs: wheels work best on smooth surfaces like roads, but don't do so well with for example a bolder strewn surface. A legged rover could step over rocks and if there were 6 legs, it could stand on five while one was trial-stepped into a new spot.
@SpaceMog Long enough to realise _Curiosity's_ wheels are kinda fragile, so they made _Percy's_ wheels thicker. They've also tweaked the autonomous driving software to better avoid rocks, and reduce motor power for any wheel that has to roll over a rock.
@@SpaceMogGood for you Maggie, you’re getting more traction from your videos. Pun intended. Hopefully, there’ll be more sponsors in the queue. Great coverage on poor Curiosity. Hope to see more discoveries and tales of adventure from Curiosity 😊
Well, we can't exactly call AMA and perform some roadside services, no? 😅 Maybe NASA should consider adding some self repairing algorithms in their next Mars probe designs. 🤔
Dr Space Mog, I love you so much!! Could you give us a video on the physics nobel prize this year and why it went to computer scientists? Love U xoxo!!
You know, I am in desperate need of a new wallet and the promotion is exactly what I am after. Huge thanks for that. The SpaceX Booster landing was awesome. Did you watch it?
@@SpaceMog fair enough, no point in upgrading something that failed before if you only want it to work for 2 years even though every single mission they do out lasts the deliberately underestimated time they state so it looks better when that time passes, not like testing something new would benefit future missions,
Titanium is twice as dense, so twice as heavy if the same dimensions. Each wheel is machined from a solid billet of aluminum, and titanium is really difficult to do any machining with.
ok Mr Engineer, we need you to construct a wheel to carry 2.000 pound over rocky off road terrain for 20+ miles while we fill all your motors, axles & bearings with the sharpest and most aggressive nasty abrasives we can think of. It needs to weigh almost nothing - Oh and did we mention it will be at minus 100 degrees - so no lubricants. Mr Engineer? Mr Engineer! why are you leaving?
Have recently been wondering about the use of A.I. driven construction machines to build habitable structures on the moon from the regolith. Will not see this happen in my lifetime but maybe in my grand-children's. Still feel living on Mars is a pipe-dream when our home planet is in such a poor state because of us alone.
Doesn't even have to be ai driven, just robotic and send some instructions. They have them on earth already, but getting the equipment on the moon or mars is the hard part
an electrical arc carved the channels, not water. (electric discharge) Dust devils are well know, the electrical environment is not though and so is not being looking at for being responsible for blowing holes in the wheels that ground atmospheric charge.
These wheels have been breaking since day one. This should be an understood problem by now. And it looks like it’s going to end a mission?!! Someone needs to go.
Good job so far??? How little km/miles has the rover done? They just are the cheapest things, but tax payers paid lots of millions for these tyres, NASA, The biggest player from the "hidden "government after the cia...
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Unfortunately Kwik Fit don't have a Mars branch yet. There's a Halfords on Phobos but they'd probably fit a tyre for a 1971 lunar rover.
😂 some one needs to set up a franchise!
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Nasa needs to make a rover that transforms into a repair bot lol
yes!
maybe they should just put all weather tyres on....
it's the wrong planet for vulcanised rubber tho'
Sure. Where is Ratchet when we needed him.... 😅😅
@@Star_Jewel_Realm I have him lol
"what on mars could even cause such damage"! haha
right?!
Mars Guy channel gives excellent weekly updates on Perseverance and occasionally Curiosity's progress.
Here's Mars guy for scale....
The more the rovers get damaged the more i grow attached to them willing them on makes them more alive somehow
its so sad to know, that the graveyard of rovers and landers on Mars, only need a wipe of their solar panels :/
@@SpaceMog It really is, I know it's strange but I find it quite emotional when they send their final message home
Reminds me of XKCD 695. Poor Spirit...
Nooo! not our little robot - Mars will pay for this!
😂 lets go get him!
@@SpaceMog - He's not so tough - we should fit a speaker to the future Mars helicopter so we can deliver insults into the thin air
It was not Mars. It was Calvin.
I've seen very rounded rocks and pebbles (granite) on the Namib desert floor where it just about never rains - just from wind & sand.
interesting! but it must rain eventually...
@@SpaceMog it does very occasionally, buckets down. Check out the very occasionally flowing Kuiseb River on Google Earth, normally dry but flows often enough to stop the sand dunes crossing the river to the aforementioned desert pavement (Namib-Naukluft National Park).
I have a wallet like that and I love it!!! I don't have the tracker though...great job Dr Maggie!!!
the android version is better i'd say - its solar powered :-O
Nice your channel is very informative. Always reports on very underrated but important science news overlooked by mainstream science news sources. Subscribed 👍
Thanks a bunch :-)
we still don't know why the martians shot down our helicopter, now they're leaving IED's on the highways?
PS well done spaceX, i told them it would work!
we need to send more helicopters! And yes, how fun was that to watch? Can't wait to see what the do with starship next time, seems too big to land at sea, so will mechazilla catch it too ?
@@SpaceMog well presumably starship will be on some kind of mission, so it won't be coming back, but if they get this down to an art (two launches every day will be art) then they could catch the booster, unload it and catch the ship too.
love your show, hope it grows, sabine takes all the glory eh?
@@SpaceMog Yes, it will catch the booster, put it back on the launch pad, then catch Starship and stack it on the booster. After refueling they can go back to orbit. 1-2 flights a day. This will be needed to refuel the propellant depot. Everyone is worried about it taking 10 refueling flights for HLS. They will be able to do that in a week. Less with a second tower.
Great video! I hope the rover can continue as it’s done a great job so far
Thank you!
thank you for a great report 👍☺
Glad you enjoyed it
IIRC the first damage happened pretty suddenly and very early on in the mission. It was already quite severe from the get go. All careful driving since then.
YUP!
Sometimes I wonder if a better form of locomotion for a rover might be legs: wheels work best on smooth surfaces like roads, but don't do so well with for example a bolder strewn surface. A legged rover could step over rocks and if there were 6 legs, it could stand on five while one was trial-stepped into a new spot.
5:30 Allowing it to climb up inclinations of up to 12°.
Oh. _Perseverance_ (with the same chassis) is currently trying to climb up a 14° slope.
its only like 10 years older!
@SpaceMog Long enough to realise _Curiosity's_ wheels are kinda fragile, so they made _Percy's_ wheels thicker.
They've also tweaked the autonomous driving software to better avoid rocks, and reduce motor power for any wheel that has to roll over a rock.
You should partner with some microphone company that will give you a better mic. You audio is very poor.
I wish :-)
$99 for a wallet!
Is that Earth money or Mars money?
Just another social-media advertised scam. I never saw it of course, thanks to sponsorblock.
Commenting to feed the algorithm🙃 Also enjoyed the update on the rover 🙂
Much appreciated
I enjoyed it!
Thank you!
The mogs got a sponsor, more coffee money!
yay! Thanks for noticing :-)
@@SpaceMogGood for you Maggie, you’re getting more traction from your videos. Pun intended. Hopefully, there’ll be more sponsors in the queue. Great coverage on poor Curiosity. Hope to see more discoveries and tales of adventure from Curiosity 😊
Well, we can't exactly call AMA and perform some roadside services, no? 😅 Maybe NASA should consider adding some self repairing algorithms in their next Mars probe designs. 🤔
That would be sensible
That wheel has a lot of problems, I remember having a problem around 2014
YES!
I’m pretty sure we could build a rover and run it around Antarctica for as long as Curiosity has lasted
I doubt it, Antarctica has terrible weather and is in darkness for 6 months each year.
Not even our road tyres last that long!
@@mballer it’s about the same temperature as mars, and storms last much longer on mars
12 yrs on one set of tires, not bad
Michellin should take notes ;-)
Great video...👍
Thank you 👍
I would speculate a combination of the highly abrasive mars surface during high winds or storms and the extremely high levels of UV radiation.
thankfully they arent made of plastic :-)
It's going to take a few more pirate-ninjas to move around with that blowout!
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Send in the Space Mogs. Built in self healing paws, AI for obstacle avoidance and if anything is moving up there, they will find it.
yay! i'd definitely be up for it
Avoid every sharp rock on Mars? That would be a good trick.
@@dionysus2006 You are so right Dionysus! Cats (Mogs) Are amazing!
Dr Space Mog, I love you so much!! Could you give us a video on the physics nobel prize this year and why it went to computer scientists? Love U xoxo!!
Yes absolutely! It's just my topic!
Nice video!
Glad you enjoyed it
I thought I learned something new about RFID. I was about to run out and buy an RFID suit just in case Earth loses its atmosphere. 😄
😂, You don't need it we have cosmic rays flying through us all the time!
@@SpaceMog Whoa, really? I didn't even realize that. I guess it is the radiation that we're protected from by the atmosphere, right?
@SpaceMog
Please state/include imperial units of measurement.
Im European 🙈😭
You know, I am in desperate need of a new wallet and the promotion is exactly what I am after. Huge thanks for that. The SpaceX Booster landing was awesome. Did you watch it?
Thanks so much, and yes I did, amazing catch, the starship soft land wasnt bad either. Cant wait to see how they will land that thing
@@SpaceMog Hopefully on Mars 😂
Is anyone surprised, they had this problem before and still used the same wheels!
it was only meant to be running for 2 years, so i'd say they more than got their monies worth out of them!
@@SpaceMog fair enough, no point in upgrading something that failed before if you only want it to work for 2 years even though every single mission they do out lasts the deliberately underestimated time they state so it looks better when that time passes, not like testing something new would benefit future missions,
No, the design is different with each new Mars rover, with changes based on previous experience.
@@cdl0 oh so that's why they are having the exact same problem
@@rocoe9019 No, Perseverance's wheels are, thus far, proving to be more durable than Curiosity's wheels.
Fleets of starships coming soon!
Wasnt that catch just awesome?!
Starliners more like……
Not UV stable?
possibly!
Curiosity has lost a wheel while operating well past it's design limit? Meh, I've taxed worse than that. It'll be fine, I'm sure.
Hahaha! Its ironic because i have a flat right now too T_T
@@SpaceMogAt least you can get roadside assistance... Curiosity, not so much... Lol
@@the80hdgaming "Ah, sorry, we don't carry the adaptor for that bolt. Have to be towed."
When are we getting an autonomous submarine in the oceans of Europa?
Maybe after they check its ok to go down there first? Will you tune in to the europa clipper launch tomorrow? 🚀
Why didn't they craft the wheels from titanium instead of aluminum❓
Titanium is twice as dense, so twice as heavy if the same dimensions.
Each wheel is machined from a solid billet of aluminum, and titanium is really difficult to do any machining with.
exactly, needs to be light and easy to make
@@SpaceMog Not simply "easy", but possible to make! Titanium would not be possible with current technology.
OK So an Aluminium Wheel but at least make those grousers out of Titanium bar?
No fancy machining needed and not so much added weight🤔
Too bad Curiosity doesn't carry a spare!😄
6 wheels is enough right?
Metal wheels aren't tough enough ? Good golly !!
let's try diamond next?
Aluminum because there was no money for titanium.
😂
No worries. The dust gets miraculously cleaned off the panels when needed. I bet the wheel miraculously receives a clean bill of health too.
maybe the martians will come to the rescue
Please, it is *Aeolis Mons,* the official name of the International Astronomical Union IAU.
No one listens to the IAU and mount sharp is a much better name :-P
@@SpaceMog Exactly, those ignorant fools at the "IA Who?!?" don't even know that Pluto is a planet!
ok Mr Engineer, we need you to construct a wheel to carry 2.000 pound over rocky off road terrain for 20+ miles while we fill all your motors, axles & bearings with the sharpest and most aggressive nasty abrasives we can think of. It needs to weigh almost nothing - Oh and did we mention it will be at minus 100 degrees - so no lubricants.
Mr Engineer? Mr Engineer! why are you leaving?
😂 its sooo true!
Call AAA.
I wanted to say AA! but didn't think the americans would get it, turns out you are AAA :-P
13 years already? Good grief!
i feel so old!
Tempus fugit.
interesting problem...
:-)
Have recently been wondering about the use of A.I. driven construction machines to build habitable structures on the moon from the regolith. Will not see this happen in my lifetime but maybe in my grand-children's. Still feel living on Mars is a pipe-dream when our home planet is in such a poor state because of us alone.
Doesn't even have to be ai driven, just robotic and send some instructions. They have them on earth already, but getting the equipment on the moon or mars is the hard part
Paused at 22 seconds. Clearly it ran over a space nail. Space nails are biggly.
Who left the nail there? 🤔
The crew that faked the moon landing, obviously!
YIKERS!
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i love you
Thank you
Stand in line brother. Lol
@@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt no u 😄🤙
or just use ai to drive the vehicle...
But you need the data to train the AI.
Call Mars AAA or Elon has a job ahead of him.
might be my next startup SAA - space automobile association
Curiosity sol 1065.
how many days left on this barren land ?
@@SpaceMog ❤ Curiosity Rover
jeses ,nasa cant make wheels ,my bicyckle are 50 years old and going strong
That's awesome. Do you actually ride it though ?
Supreme Leader of North Korea absolutely loved this
Minor thing but I prefer when you're just a bit further from the camera, like the Euclid or ISS video
OK noted! thanks!
there's a lot wrong with this video i'm not sure where to start
an electrical arc carved the channels, not water. (electric discharge) Dust devils are well know, the electrical environment is not though and so is not being looking at for being responsible for blowing holes in the wheels that ground atmospheric charge.
These wheels have been breaking since day one. This should be an understood problem by now. And it looks like it’s going to end a mission?!! Someone needs to go.
When are you free to get suited up?
it's not doing anything anyway
What do you mean? its exploring Mars!
Good job so far??? How little km/miles has the rover done? They just are the cheapest things, but tax payers paid lots of millions for these tyres, NASA, The biggest player from the "hidden "government after the cia...
20 miles/ 33 km, you can see his tracks here: science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/location-map/