http://www.newsweek.com/nasas-mars-curiosity-rover-back-work-drilling-rock-samples-after-fix-60-942526

It's hard to tackle even the most basic odd jobs when your tools break and the nearest hardware store is 60 million miles away. And that's been precisely the challenge NASA's Curiosity rover has faced on Mars since December 2016, when the drill the robot uses to study rocks broke.

NASA engineers spent the next year and a half figuring out a workaround that would let the rover keep doing its geology despite the busted part—and on Sunday, Curiosity successfully drilled its first new hole.