The Auto-Gopher drill is a wire-line rotary-hammer drill designed for drilling on Mars, the Moon, or the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter. The depth of penetr…
This type of drill is one of the tools that didn’t make the cut for the Curiosity mission, but can be expected to be flown if/when another Curiosity-like rover is sent to Mars or elsewhere.
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