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Mars rover: Wind sensor damaged on Nasa's Curiosity [View all]
Source: BBC
21 August 2012 Last updated at 20:03 GMT
Mars rover: Wind sensor damaged on Nasa's Curiosity
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent
Nasa has reported its first setback in the Curiosity rover mission to Mars.
A sensor on the robot's weather station that takes wind readings has sustained damage.
The mission team stresses this is not a major problem and will merely degrade some measurements - not prevent them.
It is not certain how the damage occurred but engineers suspect surface stones thrown up during Curiosity's rocket-powered landing may have struck sensor circuits and broken the wiring.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19338870
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