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NeoGreen

(4,030 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 08:30 AM Jun 2016

Twelve 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 OP
But where's "The Martian?" MADem Jun 2016 #1
"Whoa! You're making a bomb without me?" Ilsa Jun 2016 #7
Emily Lakadawalla has one of the best Blogs. longship Jun 2016 #2
longship, thank you for the link to Lakdawalla's Blog. saidsimplesimon Jun 2016 #3
Tune into Planetary Radio for a weekly look at what she has to say. longship Jun 2016 #4
Here's Emily Lakdawalla! longship Jun 2016 #5
Boring! Qutzupalotl Jun 2016 #6

longship

(40,416 posts)
2. Emily Lakadawalla has one of the best Blogs.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 09:41 AM
Jun 2016

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.

longship

(40,416 posts)
4. Tune into Planetary Radio for a weekly look at what she has to say.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:58 PM
Jun 2016
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.

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. Here's Emily Lakdawalla!
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 03:06 PM
Jun 2016


Like many science educators we know well (Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carolyn Porco) she rolled 18 on charisma. (D&D reference there)
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