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Laser Marks

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Laser Marks

One of the best things about Curiosity is that it shoots lasers. The rover vaporizes tiny bits of rocks and studies the resulting plasma to better understand their composition. Here is one poor specimen before and after a barrage of pew-pewing. Below is a nice animation showing what it looks like when a laser hole appears.

Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/ CNES/IRAP/LPGN/CNRS


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