This is CBSI in the World. I'm John Bathill from the surface of the planet Earth. We're

staying here for a moment to celebrate the 13th anniversary of the founding of Behind

the Black Bob Zimmerman's website following robots and man space and of course the

tangle of regulators and ambition on planet Earth waiting for starship to launch. But this

is an opportunity for you to contribute or subscribe to Behind the Blacks news which is in all

directions. We only touch upon it in our reports during the week. It's always coming in and we watch

and worry about our little robot friends in genuity for example was missing for 63 days and we

didn't know it and the reveal by NASA has puzzles in it which will solve in the fullness of time

because ingenuity is a spectacular success. We're going to go now to another spectacular success

thanks to your donations. This is curiosity and I don't think it was engineering. I think it was

prayer that sustained curiosity these years. Bob you've got a picture of the wheel. Why?

Yes John this is this is by the way an example of the donate this is behind the black because this

coverage of the wheels of curiosity no one else does. I'm the only one that really covers this

on a regular basis everybody else. Wait for NASA press releases. I don't way I found the

fire of photos and I post them to show the situation. Curiosity it is engineering on this

save these wheels. It's not magic and the engine is shortly after curiosity started to

rove on in gal crater on the floor of gal crater which wasn't such a tough terrain. They noticed

that the wheels were getting damaged much quicker than expected and so they spent a lot of time

the engineers that run curiosity to improve the software the autonomous software that has the

rover move as well as plan their movements more carefully to avoid the worst rock stuff and they

have successfully I'd say over the last four or maybe seven years of travel since it didn't

end now more than a decade they've been able to really prevent those damage from increasing

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