And Aviation Administration said Space Administration (NASA) on Saturday its Curaossite probe was used for the first time drilling arm on board to collect a sample of Martian rocks may provide evidence of a moist environment have long since vanished.
NASA said in a statement that the arm reached a depth of 6.4 cm in the sedimentary rocks and the probe collects rock fragments resulting from the drilling is analyzed using laboratory equipment on board.
And this is the first time that used the probe arm mechanism for drilling to collect samples from Mars.
Said John Jeransfield Assistant Director of running scientific missions in NASA "has become the latest robotic arm designed for use on planets as analytical laboratory is now fully operational on Mars."
And SIP Curaossite pits in the rock dubbed "John Klein," a name, deputy director of the Mars Science Laboratory project, who died in 2011.
In the next few days will lead controllers on the ground probe arm to handle the sample plug some of them to laboratory equipment within Curaossite.
The processes of drilling and analysis within the framework of the Mars Science Laboratory project for NASA, which uses SIP Curaossite in exploring the area when a hole generation Crater on the Red Planet to determine whether they had seen an environment suitable for life
