Mars rover pauses for robot arm checkout

Written By The USA Links on Friday, 7 September 2012 | 08:43

(CBS News) NASA’s Curiosity Mars corsair has driven some 357 feet from a alighting site on a building of Gale Crater — 269 feet as a martian bluster competence fly — on a approach to an intriguing area about 5 times over divided where 3 opposite forms of stone come together. Project officials pronounced Thursday a corsair continues to marker adult nearby ideal scores during extended checkout operations, with minute drudge arm tests on daub over a subsequent week or so.

“We’ve been on a aspect of Mars for about a month and Curiosity continues really healthy and continues to warn us with how good she’s doing all we ask of her,” pronounced Mission Manager Mike Watkins. “We’ve continued to expostulate a small bit. We are about a football margin or

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