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Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover starts drilling again (BBC)
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
The US space agency's Curiosity Mars rover has drilled another hole on the Red Planet.
It is almost a year since the robot last turned the power tool in the ground.
The vehicle has since travelled more than 5km (three miles) as it heads towards the mission's primary target - the foothills of the huge mountain that dominates Mars’ Gale crater.
The rock drill was spun at a scientific waypoint known as "The Kimberley".
New pictures sent back to Earth on Wednesday, taken by the rover’s Mahli “hand lens”, show a sharply defined hole surrounded by a pile of grey powder.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27217117
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