When Mars Bites Back
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When Mars Bites Back
More than 300 million kilometres from the nearest mechanic, NASA's Curiosity rover found itself in a situation that would make any engineer break into a cold sweat. A rock got stuck to its drill and wouldn't let go. What followed was a week long, long distance rescue operation that says as much about the ingenuity of the people behind the machine as it does about the extraordinary challenges of exploring another world.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Stalled on Mars for Six Days by Stuck Rock
NASA’s Curiosity Rover became temporarily stuck after a drilled Martian rock called Atacama lodged onto its drill bit. Engineers spent six days using vibrations and robotic arm maneuvers before finally freeing the rover and resuming science operations.
In an unprecedented misadventure, the Martian rover Curiosity ended up with a 13 kg rock stuck on his robotic arm, forcing the teams of the Nasa to a remote rescue operation of the most delicate.
In a recent incident, the Curiosity rover's drill became stuck in a rock on Mars, requiring an innovative solution from the NASA team to resolve the problem more than 300 million kilometers away. Curiosity Drill Incident On April 25th, during a drilling operation on a rock called "Atacama," Curiosity's drill became stuck. The target, a rock disc 45 centimeters in diameter and 15 centimeters thick, became trapped in the drill's fixed sleeve, resu…
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