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A state-of-the-art Thales laser is performing a vital function onboard NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Melissa Bradshaw reports

Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam Science Instrument Delivers First Results Data from the powerful science tool includes sounds of its laser zapping a rock in order to test what it’s made of. The first readings from the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover have arrived on Earth. SuperCam was developed jointly by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and a consortium of French research laborat...

Dramatic footage shows how NASAs Perseverance landed on Mars Issued on: The high-resolution still shows the Perseverance rover landing on Mars. - NASA/JPL-CALTECH/AFP 3 min NASA has released a new video of the landing of the Perseverance rover in the 45-km wide Jezero crater on the Martian surface Advertising Read more According to a NASA statement, the video taken by a high definition camera aboard the spacecraft,...

From The Lab: French technology on a high as Perseverance heads for Mars surface Issued on: 18/02/2021 - 08:31 An illustration of the Perseverance rover which will land on Mars on February 18, 2021. © NASA/JPL-Caltech 3 min NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is today to land in the 45km-wide Jezero crater on the Martian surface. Its mission: to look for signs of ancient life – albeit microbacteria – to assess Mars’ habitabi...

On February 18 (today), NASAs Mars 2020 mission will land in the 45km-wide Jezero crater on the Martian surface.

Thales Laser on Mars 2020 Mission: Three Days to Touchdown On 18 February, when the Perseverance rover lands on Mars, the Thales laser will enter service as part of SuperCam, the eyes of the rover, to determine the chemical and organic composition of Martian rock samples. The Thales laser at the heart of the SuperCam instrument, which is even more powerful than the laser that has been operating for the last eight years on the Curiosity mission, will help to look for potential signs of life on t...