Madrid. (EP) .- The Curiosity rover NASA Mars has collected a shows ground Perforated Monte Sharp , his scientific final destination on the Red Planet. On Wednesday, the hammer drill rover made a hole 6.7 inches deep in a basement outcrop on Mount Sharp and picked up a powder sample.
The data and images received on Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA confirmed the success of this operation. The dust collected by drilling is temporarily kept in the mechanism of sample handling, located in the arm of the rover.
Training Mountain
“The drilling target is at the bottom of the base layer of the mountain, and from here we intend to examine the high and exposed layers in the nearby hills,” said project scientist Ashwin Vasavada Curiosity.
“This first analysis at the base of Mount Sharp is exciting because it will begin to form a picture of the environment at the time when the mountain was formed,” he said. “We’re putting the brakes to study this amazing mountain,” said Deputy Project Manager Jennifer Trosper Curiosity, JPL. “Curiosisty flew hundreds of millions of miles to do this,” said
After traveling 8 km for 15 months since his arrival at Mars, which included several holes in the ground., Curiosity arrived on September 19 to a outcrop called Pahrump Hills, which is a section of the basal Mountain geologic unit called Murray formation.
The rock is now perforated softer than any of the above three objectives which has collected punched specimens Curiosity for analysis. Among the test of mini-hole drilling and sample collection, the researchers used the tools on Curiosity’s mast and robotic arm for close inspection of geometrically distinct features on the surface near the rock.
These features of sedimentary rocks are accumulations Murray formation of resistant materials. By investigating the forms and the chemical ingredients of these characteristics, the team hopes to obtain information about the possible composition of the fluids in this place on Mars long ago.
The next step will be to deliver the sample rock-powder on a spoon on the rover’s arm. The instruments can perform many types of analysis to identify the chemistry and mineralogy of the bedrock.
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