Meanwhile on Mars:
For those that have been following along. After several days of robotic arm gymnastics, the slab of rock that was stuck on Curiosity Rover's drill bit has finally been liberated.

Animated HazCam GIF from Sol 4883 (April 2, 2026) Shows a pair of before and after liberation images. Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars #GIF #free #HazCam #Drill

This was not on my Mars Bingo Card.

Curiosity rover lifts the rock that is stuck to its drill, gives it a shake which liberated some loose material, but fails to dislodge the errant rock on Sol 4881 (April 30, 2026). The team has an option to eject the drill bit assembly and use one of its spare drill bits, but I assume that will be the last resort. Animated HazCam GIF with timestamps.

#Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars #Bingo #stuck #GIF

Meanwhile in Gale Crater.

In this animated GIF we can see dust cascading from the rock that appears to have been lifted by Curiosity's drill bit. The timestamps show the 9 HazCam images were acquired over 15 minutes on Sol 4879 (April 28, 2026). I'm assuming the dust was liberated by the operation of one of the voice coils in the drill. This attempt to free the drill bit does not appear to have been successful.

#Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars

Meanwhile on Mars:
Did Curiosity Rover just lift a rock after drilling into it? Here's a short animation of its drilling operation with timestamps on front HazCam images from Sol 4877 (April 26, 2026)

The first subframe image shows the drill above the target prior to drilling, the next four images show last images of the drilling phase. The last frame was acquired after they raised the robotic arm.

#Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks #Mars #Stuck #GIF

ESA's Rosalind Franklin Rover Secures Falcon Heavy Launch to Mars in Late 2028 via NASA Partnership

📰 Original title: El rover europeo Rosalind Franklin viajará a Marte en 2028 con un Falcon Heavy

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/esas-rosalind-franklin-rover-secures-falcon-heavy-launch-to-mars-in-late-2028-via-nasa-partnership/?redirpost=872ef68f-94cb-4e93-9fd5-5d0e1bfaae9c

#astronomy #marsrover #esa #falconheavy

ESA's Rosalind Franklin Rover Secures Falcon Heavy Launch to Mars in Late 2028 via NASA Partnership

📰 Original title: El rover europeo Rosalind Franklin viajará a Marte en 2028 con un Falcon Heavy

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/esas-rosalind-franklin-rover-secures-falcon-heavy-launch-to-mars-in-late-2028-via-nasa-partnership/?redirpost=872ef68f-94cb-4e93-9fd5-5d0e1bfaae9c

#astronomy #marsrover #esa #falconheavy

For as long as I can remember, I have always been in love with space. With our extraordinarily beautiful, wonderfully mysterious, vast-in-time-and-space-beyond-human-comprehension universe ✨🩵

More on these gouache and watercolor paintings later, but I just wanted to share this one today to welcome home the crew of Artemis II!

#Space #TraditionalArt #Art #Perseverance #MarsRover #SpaceExploration #Artemis #Astronomy

Okay, folks, gather 'round, because you are not going to believe this one. My friend who is working at NASA told me this confidential news , but i can finally spill the beans: NASA is officially running NetBSD.

Yeah, you heard that right. Turns out, when you need an OS that can literally run on a potato *and* survive the vacuum of space without a hiccup, you do not mess around. They have been working under wraps with their deep space division on something they are calling "AstroBSD."

Apparently, the Perseverance rover on Mars? Yeah, it is not just taking pretty pictures; it is crunching data with a custom NetBSD kernel.

This just proves what foundation has been saying forever: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" From your ancient router to a rover on another planet.

#NetBSD #NASA #AstroBSD #AprilFools #OpenSource #Portability #MarsRover #SpaceTech #GeekHumor