New footage shows NASA's Curiosity rover tilting, rotating and vibrating its robotic arm as mission scientists tried to remove a rock, dubbed Atacama, that became stuck on a drill for six days.
While drilling has fractured rocks, this is the first time the instrument has ever accidentally pulled a whole chunk from the ground, according to the space agency ...
On April 25, 2026, NASA’s Curiosity rover pressed its drill into a Martian rock nicknamed Atacama and got more than it bargained for. Instead of boring a neat hole into what looked like solid ground, ...