{"id":21041,"date":"2025-08-14T20:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=21041"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:07:20","slug":"nasas-rovers-keep-getting-stuck-and-we-just-found-out-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=21041","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Rovers Keep Getting Stuck and We Just Found Out Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/nasas-rovers-keep-getting-stuck-and-we-just-found-out-why\/\" title=\"NASA\u2019s Rovers Keep Getting Stuck and We Just Found Out Why\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-777x494.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dan Negrut Rover Lab\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-777x494.jpg 777w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-400x254.jpg 400w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-1536x976.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-2048x1301.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-450x286.jpg 450w, https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dan-Negrut-Rover-Lab-1200x762.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/a>Engineers on the College of Wisconsin\u2013Madison have pinpointed a shocking flaw in how NASA assessments its rovers on Earth. For many years, researchers adjusted rover weight to imitate decrease gravity on the Moon or Mars, however they missed how Earth\u2019s gravity impacts the sand itself. In actuality, lunar soil is way looser and fewer supportive than [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/nasas-rovers-keep-getting-stuck-and-we-just-found-out-why\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers on the College of Wisconsin\u2013Madison have pinpointed a shocking flaw in how NASA assessments its rovers on Earth. For many years, researchers adjusted rover weight to imitate decrease gravity on the Moon or Mars, however they missed how Earth\u2019s gravity impacts the sand itself. In actuality, lunar soil is way looser and fewer supportive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[754,14037,6372],"class_list":["post-21041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-nasas","tag-rovers","tag-stuck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21042,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions\/21042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}