Mars Rover's Abrasion tool Revived
The Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) on the Mars rover Opportunity, jammed for the past month, is back in operation. Last week controllers used the RAT, which includes a spinning brush to clean dust off rocks, to brush areas of the rock Escher deep inside Endurance crater. The operation demonstrated the RAT...
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