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'Tis But A Scratch!
Still plenty of miles on these wheels
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover
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The wheels are built extremely thin (0.75mm aluminium) to save on weight. The rover is incredibly heavy (340kg/750lbs in Mars gravity) on those paper-thin wheels, I'm really amazed it held this far.