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Curiosity Rover Prepares to Drill at Mars's Nazca Block

After the Basque Lakes drill campaign, the Curiosity rover moved a few meters from the Chiu Chiu block. Chiu Chiu was not good for drilling. However, a newly named neighbor block, Nazca, lay nearby. Lucy Lim is a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She said that the mission team had approved drilling preparations at Nazca during Sols…

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