Two years on Mars - Curiosity looks like now?

Not long ago, the rover Curiosity celebrated (or rather, for it celebrated the creators of the device) two years of stay on the Red Planet. Of course, the time could not leave marks on the guise of the rover, so to speak, and now these marks a very noticeable.

Probably the strongest Mars had an effect on the wheel: the network does not just appear pictures wheel Curiosity, with relatively large holes and scratches. So far, this is not a big influence on the performance of the unit, which can not but rejoice. But compare what was and what was not hurt. Under habrakatom - some pictures to assess the current state of Curiosity and compare it to what it was at the beginning.

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As already mentioned, the biggest problem Curiosity - this wheel. Has a lot of loopholes, the wheels look as the word of someone intentionally hitting and scratching. What to do - is glad that all this is not affect the performance of the machine.

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A little wheels. On Mars, a lot of hard rocks, debris that can cause severe damage to virtually any type of material.

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One of the many elements of the rover, is now covered with reddish Martian dust.

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Penny 1909, also covered with a layer of dust. Penny is used to calibrate the device's camera.

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Many sites rover will collect dust during the entire term of the rover on the Red Planet.

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Another element to calibrate collects dust. Gathering dust is successful!

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MarsDial also intended to calibrate the cameras. A thick layer of dust is visible to the naked eye, despite the fact that the picture is not the best quality.

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These two self rover assembled from images obtained using MAHLI, pokazyayut that the top of the rover, which placed the navigation camera, little touched by the dust that can not but rejoice.

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Via theverge.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/234093/