NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has used the drill on its robotic arm to take 32 rock samples to date. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the end of the robotic arm, provided the images in this mosaic.
  • bean
    16•9 months ago

    Curiousity 🫂

    This also reminded me of a joke from Ghostbusters II…

    Prosecutor: Dr. Venkman, would you please tell the court why you and your co-defendants took it upon yourselves to dig a very big hole in the middle of 1st Avenue?

    Peter Venkman: Well, there are so many holes in 1st Avenue, we really didn’t think anyone would notice.

  • don
    11•9 months ago

    That’s curiosity’s hole job.

  • @SkybreakerEngineerEnglish
    7•9 months ago

    Turns out, you CAN just drill a hole in the surface of Mars

  • @taanegl
    7•9 months ago

    I knew it was lonely, but goddamn.

  • @MuunEnglish
    3•9 months ago

    Are they drilling into very different types of rock or is this area (the basin) fairly homogenous?

    • LostXOR
      1•9 months ago

      The debris and surrounding rock looks likes it’s a few different colors, so I’d guess it’s different types of rock.