NASA’s Mars Rover Back In Drilling Business

Credit: Curiosity: NASA
PASADENA, California—NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has resumed drilling rock after more than a year’s hiatus while engineers developed and tested an alternative method to operate the drill after it was sidelined by a mechanical problem in 2016. The revamped technique, known as feed extended drilling...

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