PIA16733: Video Clip of a Rover Rock-Drilling Demonstration at JPL
 Target Name:  Mars
 Mission:  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
 Product Size:  1278 x 718 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
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This video clip shows moments during a demonstration of drilling into a rock at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., with a test double of the Mars rover Curiosity. The drill combines hammering and rotation motions of the bit.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the rover.

More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2013-02-20