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
14 Comments
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 293d
I worry we’re gonna let all the air out of it.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 293d
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 293d
That’s it!
paulhammond5155@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 293d
Best I could find
tfowinder@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 292d
Here what grok imagined from this comment
njm1314@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 293d
We've dug too deeply and too greedily.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 293d
Not the most impressive hole, as determined by "can I fuck it?"
paulhammond5155@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 293d
.... Watch out for the instant frostbite.... Ground temp as low as minus 131.8 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 91 degrees Celsius)
untorquer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d
You gotta lower your standards because you don't stand a chance of fucking any hole on Mars.
khannie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d
Speak for yourself.
ramius345@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 293d
You can't just shoot a hole into the center of Mars!
msage@programming.dev · 3 pts · 293d
max0r did it better
SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
I'd like to "make a hole" like that in the game's development studio, not Lunae Planum...
paulhammond5155@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 293d
:)
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d
One day you'll drill through the surface and it will deflate 😃