NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Studies Trove of Rocks on Crater Rim - NASA
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The diversity of rock types along the rim of Jezero Crater offers a wide glimpse of Martian history.
  • kamills@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s just crazy to me we got a robot on fricking mars drilling holes into rocks. Like how cool is that?

    • SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      It even works most of the time - pretty much all the time, actually. We’ve only failed twice so far, out of… something like 70 attempts, I believe. And only because those two rock targets were too hard.

      You’re right, it’s impressive. Come to think of it, though, Spirit and Opportunity used to do this too, and Curiosity’s still at it, so we’ve actually been at this for twenty years now. Yeah, it’s been a ride.