{"id":3925800,"date":"2026-05-05T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/watch-as-nasas-curiosity-rover-frees-its-drill-from-a-rock\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:01:09","slug":"watch-as-nasas-curiosity-rover-frees-its-drill-from-a-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/watch-as-nasas-curiosity-rover-frees-its-drill-from-a-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch as NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Rover frees its drill from a rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This series of images shows NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, and\u2014after waving the arm and running the drill a few times\u2014finally detached the rock. The imagery showing the entire process was captured by the black-and-white hazard cameras on the front of Curiosity&#8217;s chassis and by navigation cameras on its mast (head).<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-nasa-curiosity-rover-frees-drill.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This series of images shows NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, and\u2014after waving the arm and running the drill a few times\u2014finally detached the rock. The imagery showing the entire process was captured by the black-and-white hazard cameras on the front [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}