First sample from the interior of a rock on another planet
For anyone who doesn't know, a land rover Curiosity has landed on Mars a little while back in 2012,(click here for a article of the landing) Recently, Curiosity has drill into the planet Mars, extraction of this powder was brought to the Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument and the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument which is know as CheMin which inspects the minerals within the planet. This will provide us information about a new power source that may be located, bio-signatures which show information on past life, as well as past inhabitants.
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