https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/18/curiosity_drill_mars/ > NASA's top engineers think they've figured out a way to get the Curiosity rover's drill back to work holing the rock faces of Mars. > Back in 2016 the nuclear-powered rover's rock-sampling drill broke down after a motor failed. As 225 million km (140 million miles) is too far to make an on-site visit, the men and women of NASA have worked out a remote fix.