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This image demonstrates how engineers place the drill carried by NASA Mars rover Curiosity onto rock targets. They...
This image from the front Hazcam on NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows the rover drill in place during a test of...
This view shows the patch of veined, flat-lying rock selected as the first drilling site for NASA Mars rover Curiosity.
The Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this set of images before and after it drilled...
The pale rocks in the foreground of this Aug. 14, 2014, image from NASA Curiosity Mars rover include the Bonanza...
The development of the Mars rover Curiosity capabilities for drilling into a rock on Mars required years of...
This Aug. 12, 2012, image from the Mastcam on NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows an outcrop that includes the Bonanza...
Engineers working with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover set up this test area at the agency's Jet Propulsion...
NASA's Curiosity rover successfully drilled a hole 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) deep in a target called "Duluth" on...
This Mastcam-Z image shows a sample of Mars rock inside the sample tube on Sept. 1, 2021 (the 190th sol, or Martian...
This drill is a duplicate of the one aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. It was used in a test campaign at NASA's...
This wide view of the John Klein location selected for the first rock drilling by NASA Mars rover Curiosity is a...
At the center of this image from NASA Curiosity rover is the hole in a rock called John Klein where the rover...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover provided this nighttime view of a hole produced by the rover drill and, inside the hole, a...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover completed a shallow mini drill test April 29, 2014, in preparation for full-depth drilling...
In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars. Scheduled to launch in...
A selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 (January 15) at the "Rock Hall" drill site, located on...
This frame from an animation of NASA Curiosity rover shows the complicated suite of operations involved in...
This self-portrait of NASA Mars rover Curiosity combines dozens of exposures to show gray-powder and two holes where...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover has made measurements indicating that the Cumberland rock target the rover drilled in May...
This May 12, 2014, view from NASA Curiosity Mars Rover shows the rock target Windjana and its immediate surroundings...
The Chemistry and Camera ChemCam instrument on NASA Mars rover Curiosity was used to check the composition of gray...
This picture shows one prototype for hardware to cache samples of cores drilled from Martian rocks for possible...
This schematic shows the atomic structure of the smallest units that make up the layers and interlayer region of...