Curiosity update: Trying again to deliver drill sample to CheMin

Sol 1425, August 8, 2016, update by USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The second attempt to drill into Marimba went well, but the new drill sample was not transferred to CHIMRA due to a recurrence of the electrical short in the percussion mechanism.  Therefore, the sample was not delivered to CheMin as planned.  So we tried again on Sol 1425, this time without percussion (using only more gentle vibration).  This made for a rather busy day for me as SOWG Chair, but once the engineering team decided that it was safe to proceed, planning went very smoothly.  We were able to add some remote science observations before… [More at link]