NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Now Selects Its Own Targets To Zap With Its Laser - SciTechDaily

NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover features an impressive SuperCam that can examine rocks and soils with a camera, laser, and spectrometers to seek organic compounds that could be related to past life on Mars. It first used the laser to zap rocks on Mars last yea…

ByRoger Wiens, Purdue UniversityJune 6, 2022 Illustration of the Mars Perseverance Rover using its SuperCam instrument to laser zap a rock in order to test what its made of. Credit: NASA NASA Esta… [+5098 chars]

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