The Curiosity Rover Was Trying To Drill Through The Rock And Came Across Something Incredibly Hard

Video: The Curiosity Rover Was Trying To Drill Through The Rock And Came Across Something Incredibly Hard

Video: The Curiosity Rover Was Trying To Drill Through The Rock And Came Across Something Incredibly Hard
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The Curiosity Rover Was Trying To Drill Through The Rock And Came Across Something Incredibly Hard
The Curiosity Rover Was Trying To Drill Through The Rock And Came Across Something Incredibly Hard
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The Curiosity rover was trying to drill through the rock and came across something incredibly solid - Mars, the rover
The Curiosity rover was trying to drill through the rock and came across something incredibly solid - Mars, the rover

Curiosity rover, whose drill after a year of failure was repaired by NASA engineers, the other day almost broke it again, and this time physically, stumbling upon strangely hard rock.

According to a blog post on the official website, the rover was trying to take samples of the rock for scientists. The rock for the samples was chosen a week ago and even given the name "Voyageurs".

When the Curiosity drill went deep into the rock, it was able to move only a few centimeters deep, and then came across something incredibly solid. The drill could very well have broken, do not turn it off the engineers immediately after that.

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This is the first such failure for Curiosity in all its exploration of the Martian surface, including sampling. Thus, the rock "Voyageurs" is something really curious.

As you can see from the photo below, the Voyageurs rock looks no different from the typical Martian boulders scattered all over the planet. But the Curiosity Boer only managed to scratch the surface slightly.

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The Voyageurs rock is located in Gale Crater and after a failure the engineers decided to move further to find the “softer” rock.

Researcher Mark Salvatore, meanwhile, wonders if the rock's unusual properties could be attributed to the impact of iron-rich water that penetrated the rock while liquid water was still flowing on Mars.

One way or another, Mars threw a new mystery to scientists.

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