NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover is preparing to clean itself, but first, it has to get dirty. The rover is set to begin scooping up spoonful-sized samples of Martian sand on Sunday and shake them through its instruments in order to scrub the $2.5 billion car-sized mobile laboratory clean, NASA scientists announced on Thursday in a press conference.
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