Sensors Monitor Curiosity’s Drilling Arm

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  • TBMG-15568
Published January 01, 2013 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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With the successful landing last August, NASA’s Curiosity rover is maneuvering the surface of Mars, analyzing samples of soil. Two sensors were developed by FUTEK for Curiosity. The first is a cryogenic multi-axial load and torsion sensor responsible for monitoring the rover’s drilling arm and its robotic maneuvers as it retrieves sediments for analysis.