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The mission of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is to determine whether the red planet was ever home to life, microbial or otherwise. To fulfill this scientific expedition, the Martian robot drills a lot of holes. Thirty-two holes, to be exact. One such coin-sized hole was featured in a photograph posted in 2020 on Reddit, where it received more than 120,000 upvotes. It was widely circulated again when a Twitter user reposted it to the social media platform and received nearly 20,000 likes. A reverse-image search revealed that this is a genuine photograph. The hole was drilled by NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover to collect materials from a rock target called Buckskin on July 30, 2015. The Mars Science Laboratory 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 photograph was published to the internet on Aug. 4, 2015, and described as follows by NASA: As such, we have rated this claim True. If you enjoy out-of-this-world journalism, you might enjoy these other space-related stories from the Snopes science section:
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