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b3an , (edited ) to science in Curiosity's 32 Drill Holes – NASA Mars Exploration
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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 , to science in Curiosity's 32 Drill Holes – NASA Mars Exploration

That’s curiosity’s hole job.

SkybreakerEngineer , to science in Curiosity's 32 Drill Holes – NASA Mars Exploration

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

taanegl , to science in Curiosity's 32 Drill Holes – NASA Mars Exploration

I knew it was lonely, but goddamn.

XeroxCool , to science in Farewell to Our Flying Friend and Closing in on the Crater Rim

This picture is making me feel weird. It’s just… A picture of dirt. I never thought about how [nearly] every real landscape picture is on Earth because that’s the default. Yes, obviously I know we had rover pictures of landscapes on Mars and Venus (and mercury?) but all the ones I remember were fisheye stitched panoramas that have a sciencey look to them. This one though? If I didn’t know better, I’d say it’s just a lost toy drone on a rocky beach overflow taken by a handheld dslr. I can identify some regions of Earth by features in the landscape but I never thought about having to discern between planets. Weird. I guess we have similar photos from the moon but that’s just the moon, it’s obvious, it’s a fully-lit white dust pile with a black sky, a combo we can’t get on earth on that scale.

Thanks for coming to my existential ramble. I’ll stop here before I start thinking outside the solar system

Muun , to science in Curiosity's 32 Drill Holes – NASA Mars Exploration

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

LostXOR ,

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

deegeese , to science in Farewell to Our Flying Friend and Closing in on the Crater Rim

Small pic but makes it pretty easy to imagine the rotor clipping the top of the dune while landing.

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