Over the next few days, the ground team controlling the Curiosity rover
will process the sample of rock powder gathered by the rover’s
drill on Friday.
The process will examine the sample of rock powder dug from
the .63 inch wide, 2.5 inch deep hole as part of NASA’s project.
The rock sample is classified as sedimentary and is believed
to have some evidence of a water environment within the area.
The USGS.gov definition of sedimentary rocks can be read
here.
The drilling marks the first time in human history that a robot has drilled into the Martian surface and successfully retrieved a sample.
The rock where the hole was dug has been named “John Klein”
after a deceased associate of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory.
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