NASA borrowed some ideas from the Spirit, Opportunity and Perseverance missions to help Curiosity.
In 2013, after just a year of traveling, the Gale Crater operators noticed that Curiosity's treads were breaking. They realized this was the result of the robot rolling over sharp rocks that were chipping away its treads.
The NASA team attempted to mitigate this damage by introducing an algorithm to Curiosity. The software adjusts the rover's speed when traveling over certain rocks, thus improving traction and reducing wheel wear.The 2023 update takes this protection a step further by giving Curiosity two new mobility commands, reducing the amount of steering the rover must perform while driving in an arc toward a specific waypoint.
The inspiration for this improvement actually comes from two Mars rovers that predate Curiosity."That ability was actually dreamed up during the days," Denison said, referring to twin NASA rovers that landed on the surface in 2004 and outlasted their 90-sol or Martian day lifetime by more than a decade."It was a 'nice to have' they decided not to implement."
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