The ice core drill head. Simon Payne Scientists will use an ultra-advanced drill to dig 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) deep into Antarctica’s ice, with the goal of learning more about the Earth’s past and where our climate could be going in the future. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) unveiled the new drill on Monday. Made […]
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Curiosity rover active and drilling again after computer issue
Everyone’s favorite resident of Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover, is back in action after several weeks of diagnostic work. The rover has successfully drilled its eighteenth hole in the Mars surface, managing to extract a type of rock that a previous attempt failed to capture. The rock drilled, called “Highfield,” is a type of grey bedrock […]