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This frame from an animation from NASA Mars rover Curiosity shows the rover drilling into rock target Cumberland....
This Jan. 13, 2015, view from NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows outcomes of a mini-drill test to assess whether the...
After an activity called the mini drill test by NASA Mars rover Curiosity, the rover MAHLI camera recorded this view...
This image shows the first holes into rock drilled by NASA Mars rover Curiosity, with drill tailings around the...
This image from the front Hazcam on NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows the rover drill in place during a test of...
This frame from a video clip shows moments during a demonstration of drilling into a rock at NASA JPL, Pasadena,...
This frame from an animation of NASA Curiosity rover shows the complicated suite of operations involved in...
At the center of this image from NASA Curiosity rover is the hole in a rock called John Klein where the rover...
This image shows the Highfield drill hole made by NASA's Curiosity rover as it was collecting a sample on "Vera...
The percussion drill in the turret of tools at the end of the robotic arm of NASA Mars rover Curiosity has been...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover conducted a test on Oct. 17, 2017, as part of the rover team's development of a new way...
Northwestern North Dakota is one of the least-densely populated parts of the United States. Cities and people are...
The rover is positioned at a patch of flat outcrop called John Klein, which was selected as the site for the first...
The bit in the rotary-percussion drill of NASA Mars rover Curiosity left its mark in a target patch of rock called...
It was only a drill, but the scenario played out like a real space shuttle launch-day emergency. The ocean search...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected 36 powderized rock samples with the drill on the end of its robotic arm....
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this image of its 36th successful drill...
This drill is a duplicate of the one aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. It was used in a test campaign at NASA's...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover completed a shallow mini drill test April 29, 2014, in preparation for full-depth drilling...
This hole, with a diameter slightly smaller than a U.S. dime, was drilled by NASA Curiosity Mars rover into a rock...
This view shows the patch of veined, flat-lying rock selected as the first drilling site for NASA Mars rover Curiosity.
This wide view of the John Klein location selected for the first rock drilling by NASA Mars rover Curiosity is a...
This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover covers an area in "Bridger Basin" that...
The development of the Mars rover Curiosity capabilities for drilling into a rock on Mars required years of...