NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory  h/t Behind the Black

First time something like this has ever been done.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) to take the images combined into this mosaic of the drill area, called "John Klein." The label "Drill" indicates where the rover ultimately performed its first sample drilling.