Opportunity rover resumes work with abrasion tool
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has resumed the use of its Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) after a pebble that had jammed the tool's rotors two weeks earlier apparently fell out. The RAT is used to bore into martian rocks, exposing their interiors for further analysis. Mission controllers had...
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