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
I worry we’re gonna let all the air out of it.
Insert image of a partially deflated Mars zipping randomly around the solar system going PPPPPPBBBBBFFFFFTTTT
That’s it!
Insert image of a partially deflated Mars zipping randomly around the solar system going PPPPPPBBBBBFFFFFTTTT
Best I could find
Here what grok imagined from this comment
We’ve dug too deeply and too greedily.
Not the most impressive hole, as determined by “can I fuck it?”
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)
You gotta lower your standards because you don’t stand a chance of fucking any hole on Mars.
Speak for yourself.
One day you’ll drill through the surface and it will deflate 😃
max0r did it better
I’d like to “make a hole” like that in the game’s development studio, not Lunae Planum…
You can’t just shoot a hole into the center of Mars!
:)
