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By Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
May 1, 2014
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0001/5677/5114.jpl.nasa.mars_mini_drill_test.large.jpg?1476779483&1398958051 "Curiosity Mars mini drill test")
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover performed a "mini-drill" operation Tuesday, April 29, on the rock target under consideration for the mission's third sample-collection drilling. This preparatory activity produced a hole about eight-tenths of an inch (2 centimeters) deep, as planned, in the target called "Windjana."
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