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Curiosity, NASA’s nuclear-powered truck on Mars, has drilled into the planet’s surface for the third time, taking a chunk out of a sandstone slab dubbed Windjana. Sample-collection drill hole on Martian sandstone target 'Windjana' Hole in, done ... where Curiosity drilled into the Martian ground (Credit: NASA) The dust- …

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  1. Winkypop Silver badge
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    Driller thriller in the chiller

    Good work Curiosity!

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    The Martian lab may even take this sample to go, analysing the powder as the rover continues its drive towards Mount Sharp.

    If the Martians are clever enough to have a lab which can analyse the chemical composition of the sample, then surely they must already known the answers. Why did we drill another hole in their planet?

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    1. Charles Manning
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      Why did we drill another hole in their planet?

      For the same reason we insensitevly call it Windjana instead of the local name.

      Interplanetary colonialism.

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  3. Vladimir Plouzhnikov

    When will this Vandalism and Defacement of Nature stop???

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    They're going to feel pretty stupid when it turns out that Martians are trolls.

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    1. Captain Scarlet
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      I wouldn't say they are trolls, more easy to anger if their stuff is drilled into.

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      1. TRT Silver badge
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        I've seen that documentary...

        Where they collect rock samples and get pounded by the snake-rock Martians...

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    black adder on mars

    move more slowly than an asthmatic ant with 2 bags of heavy shopping must have been the design brief.

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  6. TRT Silver badge

    Gold star

    for the headline!

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  7. Version 1.0 Silver badge
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    The Martian Hillbillies

    I guess even if they strike oil they are still stuck on Mars ... I wonder if NASA filed an environmental impact statement prior to drilling?

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    1. Chris G
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      Re: The Martian Hillbillies

      Well, at least if they do strike oil there, there is no government to destabilise before bringing democracy and a bevy of ex-oil execs in as interim governors.

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  8. E 2

    We should send some real drills - deep oil drilling tech - and drill some real holes.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      "We should send some real drills - deep oil drilling tech - and drill some real holes."

      If we could do that, we* wouldn't be wasting our time doing it on Mars. There are plenty of more interesting places we would be able to reach.

      *For some value of "we" that doesn't include me. I'm definitely not clever enough to be associated with NASA, even in my own mind.

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