Curiosity Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond Earth and collected a sample from its interior.
Transfer of the powdered-rock sample into an open scoop was visible for the first time in images received at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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