Curiosity Extracts First Sample of Martian Rock
NASA's Curiosity rover has successfully extracted a sample from a Martian rock - the first ever to be collected from a planet beyond Earth.
The sample comes from a fine-grained, veiny sedimentary rock called John Klein, and it's hoped that it may hold evidence of wet environmental conditions long ago.
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