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New Mars rover tool will zap rocks to investigate planet’s past habitability – Mirage News
The SuperCam instrument is attached to the Perseverance rover at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California in June 2019. Credit:…
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 27, 2020—When NASA’s Perseverance rover launches from Florida on its way to Mars, it will carry aboard what is likely the most versatile instrument ever made to better understand the Red Planet’s past habitability.
“SuperCam is often referred to as the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of instruments because it’s a multipurpose tool in a small package,” said Roger Wiens, the lead scientist on SuperCam at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the instrument was developed.
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