Director Ron Howard dropped a new photo from the upcoming untitled “Han Solo” movie — and a hint that makes many fans think its an image of the infamous Kessel mines.
Solo boasts in the original 1977 “Star Wars” that his ship, the Millennium Falcon, “made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.”
As the Star Wars wiki site Wookiepedia explains, Kessel is a prison world that was home to the galaxy’s largest Glitterstim spice-mining operation. The Kessel Run was a hyperspace route smugglers used to transport spices from the mines. It demanded great skill of pilots, because the route involved extreme changes in velocity to jump in and out of hyperspace.