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Curiosity ready to drill its first martian rock

Pasadena, USA - "It will be this mission's most challenging activity since the landing"

Curiosity, the rover sent on Mars by the American space agency (NASA) is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a sample during the Mars Science Laboratory mission. The rover is inside Mars' Gale Crater investigating...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1149007
Rome, Italy, 01/16/2013 17:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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