Still Waters Posted December 7, 2016 #1 Share Posted December 7, 2016 NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is studying its surroundings and monitoring the environment, rather than driving or using its arm for science, while the rover team diagnoses an issue with a motor that moves the rover's drill. Curiosity is at a site on lower Mount Sharp selected for what would be the mission's seventh sample-collection drilling of 2016. The rover team learned Dec. 1 that Curiosity did not complete the commands for drilling. The rover detected a fault in an early step in which the "drill feed" mechanism did not extend the drill to touch the rock target with the bit. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6692 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlesq1 Posted December 8, 2016 #2 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Hope they can fix it. I've really enjoyed following Curiosity's adventures. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 29, 2016 #3 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Internal debris may be causing problem with Mars rover’s drill Quote Engineers suspect a piece of foreign object debris may be intermittently stalling a motor needed to place the Curiosity Mars rover’s drill bit onto rocks, and the robot’s ground team is assessing the source of the potential contamination. More importantly, Curiosity project manager Jim Erickson said, engineers are spending the holidays crunching data from a series of diagnostic tests conducted in recent weeks to analyze the drill’s behavior and determine a possible fix. Read More: Spaceflight Now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likely Guy Posted December 30, 2016 #4 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Not the way I'd like to spend my holidays, but good for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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