NASA’s Curiosity Rover Drills into Mount Sharp, Primary Science Mission Begun

After the successful completion of 2 years on the Mars, approaching ‘Mount Sharp’ target, NASA’s Curiosity Rover has accomplished the task of drilling out a 6cm hole into basal layer projection on Mount Sharp to collect the sample of powered soil with its robotic arms for analysis in its onboard lab.

NASA’s Rover has used a drilling tool to dig out a small hole around the Pahrump Hills area of Mars to get the soil sample. This soil sample allows the researchers to find out whether the Mars had once supported life in any shape prior to its current state.

Indeed, this is not believed to be the first time that NASA’s Curiosity Rover drilled in the Martian rocks to get the soil samples. Although, it’s about the third or fourth time when researchers dig out the rocks in order to collect samples. The earlier collected soil samples proved the evidences of rivers and lakes must have been there at the base of Gale, several billion years ago, researchers claimed.

NASA’s Curiosity rover yet wanders its major destination ‘Mount Sharp’, believing to be 5kms from the Gale Crater that is at the mid of the peak. The handlers told, the rover has been doing remarkably great in its mission and it will likely to cover more grounds to reach Mount Sharp, also gathering samples along the way. The NASA’s Curiosity Rover team thinks that in a period of months or even years, they would be able to gather the fresh and novel sample of rock and soil that might lead to the facts that Mars might have supported life and swarming bodies of water before.