Curiosity ready to resume driving
Posted: Thu, Sep 13, 2012, 8:59 AM ET (1259 GMT)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is wrapping up tests of its robotic arm and will soon begin driving to perform its first detailed examination of a Martian rock. Curiosity has been parked since September 5 as engineers check out the arm and the instruments mounted on it. With those tests nearly complete, Curiosity will begin driving again in the direction of a site called Glenelg several hundred meters away, where three different landforms meet. In addition, the rover team will look for a rock en route to Glenelg to perform the first detailed examination by the rover's instruments.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is wrapping up tests of its robotic arm and will soon begin driving to perform its first detailed examination of a Martian rock. Curiosity has been parked since September 5 as engineers check out the arm and the instruments mounted on it. With those tests nearly complete, Curiosity will begin driving again in the direction of a site called Glenelg several hundred meters away, where three different landforms meet. In addition, the rover team will look for a rock en route to Glenelg to perform the first detailed examination by the rover's instruments.
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