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Quick Fix Gives Mars Rover’s ChemCam Sharper Vision

By Matt Dozier | U.S. Department of Energy

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This #SpaceWeek post is an update to the 2014 article about Curiosity’s ChemCam, found here. Don’t you hate it when your photos turn out blurry? Scientists at the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory do. So when the ultra-precise camera they developed for NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover started going fuzzy, they came up with a solution that not… Keep reading →

 /  Published June 15, 2015 at 5:00 PM

Laser-Firing ChemCam Vital to Curiosity Rover’s Tour of Mars

By US Department of Energy

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Was Mars once capable of supporting life? This is the fundamental question the Curiosity rover seeks to answer as it makes its way across the Red Planet. Successfully landing on Mars in the summer of 2012 as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, Curiosity is a roving, robotic laboratory studying the planet’s habitability. To carry… Keep reading →

 /  Published March 18, 2014 at 5:00 PM