credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratories
NASA has released new updates have been released on the drilling experiment being done by the Curiosity rover in Mars. For the first time in history, a sample of an extraterrestrial rock has been successfully acquired from the Martian bedrock. No rover has ever collected a sample from the interior of a rock outside our planet! The next steps in the process includes the powder being enclosed inside CHIMRA (Curiosity's Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis) and then shaken, then filter out particles larger than 0.006 inches. It is the opinion of many that the process taking place in Martian land is going extremely slow. However, some advancement is better than none. As of right now, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Project is using the rover to investigate more about life. Will it be possible that the environment could be favorable for microbial life? Neither we nor the scientists seem to know the answer yet. Hopefully, the sample acquired will help answer the question that has been asked by everyone. Is there life outside earth?
Biology group: Daniel Lazo Yoan Rodriguez Danae Soler
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