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Related: About this forumTwelve Boreholes on Mars...
As a professional investigative geologist here on Gaia, I find this image too cool:
Twelve Curiosity drill holes on Mars
As of May 2016, Curiosity has drilled and sampled at eleven locations on Mars. They are (left to right and top to bottom): John Klein, drilled on sol 182; Cumberland, on sol 279; Windjana, on sol 621; Confidence Hills, on sol 759, Mojave, on sol 882; Telegraph Peak, on sol 908; Buckskin, on sol 1060; Big Sky, on sol 1119; Greenhorn, on sol 1137; Lubango, on sol 1320; Okoruso, sol 1332, and Oudam, sol 1361. All of these images were taken with the MAHLI camera on the end of the arm from a distance of about 5 centimeters. The drill holes are 1.6 centimeters wide.
NASA / JPL / MSSS / Emily Lakdawalla
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/mars/twelve-curiosity-drill-holes.html
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Twelve Boreholes on Mars... (Original Post)
NeoGreen
Jun 2016
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. But where's "The Martian?"
Just saw that on HBO--loved the farming!
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)7. "Whoa! You're making a bomb without me?"
Hubby said it's really close to book.
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Emily Lakadawalla has one of the best Blogs.
Witness...
Emily Lakdawalla's Blog
She's an incredible blogger.
Her monthly "What's up in the Solar System" is incredible. And that does not begin to describe what her geological science begins to bring to what her narrative describes.
BTW, she's a regular on the weekly Planetary Radio, along with a lot of other very cool folks, like Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye, the science guy.
And I really love both the book and the film, "The Martian". Both are really great.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)3. longship, thank you for the link to Lakdawalla's Blog.
longship
(40,416 posts)4. Tune into Planetary Radio for a weekly look at what she has to say.
Planetary Radio, available at your podcast aggregator just about anywhere. (Bill Nye, the science guy, too.)
Planetary science, always a good thing. Lakdawalla is a planetary geologist. Man, it just doesn't get better than that.
Planetary science, always a good thing. Lakdawalla is a planetary geologist. Man, it just doesn't get better than that.
longship
(40,416 posts)5. Here's Emily Lakdawalla!
Like many science educators we know well (Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carolyn Porco) she rolled 18 on charisma. (D&D reference there)
Qutzupalotl
(14,333 posts)6. Boring!
j/k