NASA develops tires for Mars
A little over a year after the Mars Curiosity Rover landed on Mars, engineers began to notice significant wheel damage in 2013 due to the unexpectedly harsh terrain
Engineers at NASA work on a tire for Mars.
This tire is designed to handle the rocky terrain of the Red Planet.
The new tire designed for Mars' surface can adjust to any terrain.
The tire designed for Mars can take on rocky surfaces without trouble.
(NASA images, Tire Business Illustration by David Manley)
The team at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland engineered a tire—the Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Spring Tire—that can handle the heavy load of a lunar rover while traversing rough, rocky Martian terrain and enduring extreme temperatures.