NASA's Mars rover Curiosity gets what it came for, a mouth full of Red Planet dirt - Alaska Dispatch

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity gets what it came for, a mouth full of Red Planet dirt Alaska Dispatch After 70 days on Mars, NASA's rover Curiosity finally is doing what it's paid the big bucks to do: Eat dirt. In a mission where progress so far is being measured in an excruciating series of baby steps, the rover has for the first time moved a soil ...

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