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NASA’s Curiosity Rover will study its first martial rock Friday, September 21, more than a month after landing on the Red Planet, mission officials said. Mars Science Laboratory project scientist John Grotzinger said the rover drove for another 100 feet on September 19 for a total travel distance of 950 feet so far. The science team plans to have Curiosity pause for a few days in order to perform the mission’s first “contact science” by using instruments on the vehicle’s robot arm to photograph and analyze a pyramid-shaped rock. The rock measures about 10 inches high by 16 inches wide at the base.
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