✅ True. This is a photo of a dime-sized hole that was drilled on Mars.
mission’s Curiosity rover landed on the red planet on Aug. 15, 2012, and has been collecting samples, measurements, videos, and photographs to be sent back to Earth for future study. As of this writing, it has collected more than 901,000 raw images. The rover took this image with the Mars Hand Lens Imager camera, which is mounted on the same robotic arm as the sample-collecting drill. Rock powder from the collected sample was subsequently delivered to a laboratory inside the rover for analysis.
The Buckskin target is in an area near"Marias Pass" on lower Mount Sharp where Curiosity had detected unusually high levels of silica and hydrogen.If you enjoy out-of-this-world journalism, you might enjoy these other space-related stories from the Snopes
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