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Re:NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain by markbnine on Friday September 12, 2014 @01:54PM (#8309380)
Also Emily Lakdawalla wrote up a nice article on the wheels for the Planetary Society:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/0819063...

Re:NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain by lsllc on Friday September 12, 2014 @10:28PM (#8311465)
0.75mm wheel skin thickness? check. Machined out of aluminum? check. Punctures and tears in the wheel? check.

Surprised it lasted this long. I understand weight was a concern, but surely for $2B, there's some exotic, more resilient alloy that could've been used? Or maybe just make those middle wheels 1mm thicker and eat the extra 3 1/3Kg.