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Curiosity finishes drilling at potato-chip-like rocks

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 12 November 2026, 00:41 UTC ·12 sec listen

The Curiosity rover spent the week finishing its drilling campaign at the Nazca hole on Mars. The site's bedrock contains unusual disk-shaped crystals, which the mission team says can resemble potato chips. The work covered Martian days 5063 through 5069.

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