Monday, February 11, 2013

NASA's robotic rover Curiosity drills into Martian rock

NASA drills hole in mars

NASA's robotic rover Curiosity drills into Martian rock

NASA had gotten curious and they started drilling a hole in mars. They found out that there was water under mars. They only drilled down about 2-5 inches in to mars and the collected the rock powder. This is the first time we have drilled into mars and we found out that there was water a long time ago on mars. I think this is important because we are slowly finding things that we never found before. I also think this is important because NASA is deciding to shut down tho company. Maybe if we keep finding things we can actually send a space shuttle to mars. To learn more click .here

At the center of this image released to Reuters on February 9, 2013 from NASA's Curiosity rover is the hole in a rock called "John Klein" where the rover conducted its first sample drilling on Mars on February 8, 2013, or Sol 182, Curiosity's 182nd Martian day of operations. The image was obtained by Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Sol 182. The sample-collection hole is 0.63 inch (1.6 centimeters) in diameter and 2.5 inches (6.4 centimeters) deep. The "mini drill" test hole near it is the same diameter, with a depth of 0.8 inch (2 centimeters). REUTERS/ NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Handout

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