Fifth Graders Break the Ice

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When NASA scientists in Antarctica needed help testing their new IceBreaker drill, they turned to fifth-grade students in Pleasanton, California, to do the job. Using a computer with remote drilling software, the students hammered through the icy Antarctic soil from the comfort of their classroom. The IceBreaker drill may be used on a future mission to Mars to collect samples from the Martian polar caps.


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