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re: Pressing soil, trenching and hopefully drilling soon.
Marcia — (archived)

So far, as for Opportunity's hands on or touching Mars, it has pressed the soil and dug a trench, but no drilling of outcrop yet. I wish they could have tried the RAT at Stone Mountain (a good opportunity, imho), but I suppose that they wanted to see more... they did, they then backed away from the outcrop and are now 'trenching'.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040217a/merb_traverse_map_2cm-B024R1_br.jpg


The latest.

I just hope that they'll drill on the bedrock before they leave this crater(!).

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