Mars rover no longer stuck between a rock and a hard place
Blink and you'll miss it: Watch the moment the Mars rover gets the rock off its arm after almost a week
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Houston, we did have a problem... but thankfully it's been resolved.
The Mars Curiosity Rover is a robotic vehicle doing lots of information gathering on the Red Planet.
However, recently, it got itself into a spot of bother.
On Saturday 25 April, the rover was doing some digging into a big rock called Atacama to collect samples.
But as it lifted its drilling arm, the rock came with it - in other words, it got stuck.
Curiosity has been on the Red Planet for almost 14 years
Taking some inspiration from Taylor Swift, the Nasa team back on planet Earth helped it 'shake it off'.
They started by vibrating its arm, then rotating it, then waggling, and they finally managed to release the rock from the rover on Thursday 1 May.
It can now get back to monitoring Martian dust and cloud movements from Mars' Gale Crater, where it's been for the last 14 years, in peace.
What is the Mars Curiosity Rover?
The first Martian selfie!
Curiosity is a robotic vehicle and it landed on Mars on 6 August 2012.
The rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since arriving, and has made some pretty cool discoveries - even taking the first selfie on Mars.
The robot's mission is to search for evidence of life and to learn more about the planet.
It can take pictures, collect samples and study the surface of the planet - and then beam the information back to scientists on Earth.
