NASA Curiosity Rover Drills Hole into Martian Surface, NASA “NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore […]
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Waiting for More Martian Secrets
CuriousMars: Drilling For Martian Secrets, SpaceRef “Two powerful laboratories inside the Mars rover Curiosity are being readied to process the first powdered samples of subsurface Martian rock obtained by the […]
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Malibu and Mars
CuriousMars: California Dreamin’ on a Martian Day, Craig Covault, SpaceRef “There are already plenty of stars around Malibu, California, but could the place be actually like the planet Mars? The […]
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Pete Theisinger on Mars Exploration Rovers Longevity
CuriousMars: Opportunity’s First Project Manager Hails Longevity, SpaceRef “The NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is beginning its 10th year roving Mars, completing nine years of “shocking” performance and historic discoveries […]
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Clues Reveal More of Mars's Watery Past
CuriousMars: Curiosity to Drill into ‘Whole Different World’, SpaceRef “As the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) science team completes final assessments of the mission’s first drilling target in the bedrock at […]
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Candidate Selected for the First Rock Drilling on Mars
CuriousMars: Curiosity’s Critical Rock Drilling Target Selected as Opportunity Achieves Major Science Goal, SpaceRef “After weeks of searching, the Mars rover Curiosity’s science and engineering teams have selected a fine-grained […]
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CuriousMars: Mars Drilling Delayed
CuriousMars: Curiosity Begins Rock Triage to Avoid Dangers of “Martian Honey”, SpaceRef From Craig Covault and A.J.S. Rayl “The first use the rover Curiosity’s drill to obtain subsurface samples from […]