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February 27, 2013

Mars rover ingests rock powder for tests
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Feb 25, 2013
NASA scientists say two compact laboratories inside the Mars rover Curiosity have ingested the first rock powder ever collected from inside a martian rock. Curiosity science team members will use the laboratories to analyze the rock powder in the coming days and weeks, officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said Monday. The rover's chemistry and mineralogy instrument and its sample analysis instrument each received portions of the material and have begun inspe ... read more

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