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Associated Press answers the question readers haven't been asking: If you work for the AP, what car do you usually drive? Answer: A Smart car, only a little bigger. Question not answered: What Martian marching band greeted the rover?
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a Mars first, the Curiosity rover drilled into a rock and prepared to dump an aspirin-sized pinch of powder into its onboard laboratories for closer inspection.
The feat marked yet another milestone for the car-size rover, which landed last summer to much fanfare on an ambitious hunt to determine whether environmental conditions were favorable for microbes.