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Why does the Perseverance rover have such complicated shaped spokes in its wheels?
Phys.org's NASA's Perseverance Mars rover gets its wheels and air brakes has some interesting photos includes some nice photos and below I've included a cropped section of a photo of one of ...
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Balancing Perseverance Mars Rover; couldn't they just "move stuff around a little" rather than add 6+ kg of dead weight?
The NASA News item NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Gets Balanced says:
Just as an auto mechanic places small weights on a car tire's rim to bring it into balance, the Perseverance team analyzed the ...
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