NASA’s Curiosity Rover Frees Its Drill From a Rock
Hyperwall ready version of images originally published on Planetary Photojournal
This movie shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm and, after waving the arm and running the drill a few times, finally detached the rock. The imagery showing the entire process was captured by the black-and-white hazard cameras on the front of Curiosity’s chassis and by navigation cameras on its mast, or head.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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- Marit Jentoft-Nilsen (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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