Exploring Gale Crater - Exploring the New "Glasgow" Drill

Exploring Gale Crater - Exploring the New "Glasgow" Drill

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Some of the rock taken from inside the drill hole will be fed to the rover’s CheMin instrument on sol 2758. The X-ray diffraction patterns that CheMin acquires will tell us what minerals are present in the rock. That important data, in combination with Curiosity’s other instrument investigations, will help us untangle the complex history of how this outcrop formed.

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