NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

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We have a new drilled hole on Mars (lemmy.nz)

submitted 9 months ago by paulhammond5155@lemmy.world to c/curiosityrover@lemmy.world

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This image was taken by one of Curiosity's navigation cameras during the mission's 4,718th Martian day, or sol, (November 13, 2025)

The NavCam image captures the rover's workspace and features the latest drilled hole on Mars, which has a diameter of about 0.6 inch (1.6 centimeters). We can see the small cone of pulverized tailings around the hole in the center of this image.

The drilled hole is on a ridge in the boxwork terrain on Mt Sharp. The rover recently drilled a sample hole in one of the many depressions in the boxwork terrain. Hopefully any dissimilar mineralogy between that sample and this one from the ridge could help to identify the different amount of weathering that appears to be responsible for forming this really interesting terrain.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I worry we’re gonna let all the air out of it.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

We've dug too deeply and too greedily.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not the most impressive hole, as determined by "can I fuck it?"

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Not the most impressive hole

.... Watch out for the instant frostbite.... Ground temp as low as minus 131.8 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 91 degrees Celsius)

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Speak for yourself.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

You gotta lower your standards because you don't stand a chance of fucking any hole on Mars.

[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You can't just shoot a hole into the center of Mars!

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

max0r did it better

[–] SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'd like to "make a hole" like that in the game's development studio, not Lunae Planum...

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

You can’t just shoot a hole into the center of Mars!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

One day you'll drill through the surface and it will deflate 😃