NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has already fired its
laser over 500 times as it studies its surroundings as engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) calibrate its sensors. In a classic example of “waste not, want not” Curiosity concentrated its activity on a patch of rocks that were uncovered by the rocket backwash of the
sky crane that delivered the unmanned explorer to the Martian surface on
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Curiosity's ChemCam passes first tests with flying colors
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