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First Holes Drilled into Martian Bedrock
February 10, 2013 | NASA

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has drilled two small holes into Martian bedrock. The first was a shallow test hole and the second bottomed out at a depth of 6.4 centimeters.

Rock powder collected from the drilling will be prepared for chemical and mineralogical analysis in Curiosity’s laboratory.


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