Fresh off delivering a new batch of images of the Martian surface, NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover completed its fourth test drive on the Red Planet, this one the longest yet at 70 feet, NASA reported late Thursday.
Scientists on Earth are now driving the umanned rover, NASA’s largest and most sophisticated, in the direction of an area of Mars they’ve nicknamed “Glenelg,” where they hope to use the rover’s robotic industrial-grade drill on Martian rock for the first time. The trip should take several weeks.
