Curiosity update: ‘Closer look at the drill hole’

Sol 883, January 29, 2015, update from USGS Scientist Lauren Edgar: On Sol 882 Curiosity completed another full drill hole on Mars. The target was “Mojave2” and it proved to be much more stable than “Mojave” (our previous attempt at doing a mini-drill at Mojave resulted in breaking the rock apart). This time everything went smoothly and we have a beautiful new drill hole to analyze. The main activities in today’s plan are ChemCam, Mastcam and… [More at link]