For 6 days, NASA’s Mars rover battled a rock
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Curiosity got itself stuck between a rock and hard place last month, but NASA says there’s no reason to fret about the intrepid Mars rover. On April 25, mission engineers were remotely piloting its robotic arm’s rotary-percussive drill into a Martian rock nicknamed Atacama. It’s a relatively routine task for Curiosity, which takes the samples and then pulverizes them into a powder for future onboard chemical analysis.
But Atacama is no small stone. The hefty, 1.5-foot-wide geologic formation
But Atacama is no small stone. The hefty, 1.5-foot-wide geologic formation
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