Curiosity gets the dirt on Mars
Rover completes analysis of first soil collected from Gale Crater
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THE INSIDE SCOOP The Curiosity rover collected samples of Martian soil (trenches made by the rover’s scoop shown) to complete its first chemical analysis of the Red Planet’s surface.
JPL-Caltech/NASA and MSSS