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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 laboratories under the auspices of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). The instrument delivere...

Dramatic footage shows how NASA's 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, shows the descent and touchdown of the rover in the crater.  NASA’s latest Martian probe succes...

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’ habitability, and to analyse the chemical composition of the Martian soil and rocks. Advertising ...

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