NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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1490 - The drill bit has been successfully withdrawn from the sample hole (lemmynsfw.com)

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A crop from a 9-tile NavCam image shows the latest sample hole drilled in the surface of Mars. The drilled hole has an approximate diameter of 1 inch (2.5 cm). A rock core appears in several Bayer encoded raw images from the MastCam-Z camera. I'll post the color processed versions when they become available. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Those look like flagstones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Those look like flagstones.

You get a better view in the wider angel shots in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWAeUld_HD4

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yep, that's the exact term used by some planetary geologists since this kind of terrain was first seen in 2004. On this mission they've been quite common as well, starting with the very first abrasion/sampling site, among many others.