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Nasa To Test Laser By Zapping Martian Rock 19/08/2012
- Published_at:2012-08-20
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:elisabethliora4
- tags: Nasa, Laser, Zapping, Martian Rock, NASA's, Mars rover, mars, Curiosity, Martian, Rock
- description: Nasa To Test Laser By Zapping Martian Rock NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation." The mission's Chemistry and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, hit the fist-sized rock with 30 pulses of its laser during a 10-second period. Each pulse delivers more than a million watts of power for about five one-billionths of a second. The energy from the laser excites atoms in the rock into an ionized, glowing plasma. ChemCam catches the light from that spark with a telescope and analyzes it with three spectrometers for information about what elements are in the target.
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