Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team have received the first photos from the instrument's remote micro imager. The successful capture of ChemCam's first 10 photos sets ...

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team got a digital thumbs up about the operational readiness of their instrument just hours after the rover landed on Martian soil late ...

Having survived its trip to Mars and a final hair-raising landing sequence, the Curiosity rover is now hitting its stride and starting to carry out the scientific research that will occupy it for the ...

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover ChemCam team, including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, squeezed in a little extra target practice after zapping the first ...

In the next few blogs on Anablog, I will be getting into as much depth as I can regarding the instrumentation on the Mars Curiosity Rover. I will be starting with the ChemCam—here is the beginning of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When NASA’s newest rover arrives on Mars Sunday night (Aug. 5), it will be carrying a host of ...

The mission's Chemistry and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, hit a fist-size rock with 30 pulses of its laser during a 10-second period. Each pulse delivers more than a million watts of power for about ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has already fired its laser over 500 times as it studies its surroundings as engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) calibrate its sensors. In a classic example of ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French Space Agency have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on ...

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team have received the first photos from the instrument’s remote micro imager. The successful capture of ChemCam’s first 10 photos sets ...