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Take a guided ‘tour’ of SuperCam on new Mars rover – Mirage News
Mars Technica is a new, limited-series podcast where experts talk about the science behind the Mars Perseverance mission. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 6,…
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 6, 2020—NASA’s new Perseverance rover, which just started its seven-month journey to Mars, carries on board what is likely the most versatile instrument ever created to understand the planet’s past habitability: SuperCam—and a new podcast will tell listeners all about it.
“SuperCam sits on the rover’s mast and has a laser that can zap rocks up to 25 feet away,” said Roger Wiens, who leads the SuperCam team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the instrument was develo…
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