{"id":3462,"date":"2012-08-20T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2019-01-12T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T17:09:13","slug":"curiosity-blasts-rocks-on-mars-with-its-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/breaking-news\/curiosity-blasts-rocks-on-mars-with-its-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Blasts Rocks On Mars With Its Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s space rover, Curiosity on Mars successfully completed the testing of its lasers by zapping its first rock with its laser beam on Sunday. It is an important step in the search of life-friendly habitats.<\/p>\n<p>Chemistry and Camera instrument or simply ChemCam device mounted on Curiosity fired a flat a high-powered laser 30 tines in 10 seconds on a flat, fist-sized rock and blasted it into pieces. The ChemCam created plasma sparks that were analyzed by three light-splitting spectrometers to determine their chemical contents.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3466\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3466 lazyload\" title=\"Rock ZappedBy Curiosity\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Rock ZappedBy Curiosity\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837-600x392.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837.jpg 619w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/196;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3466\" title=\"Rock ZappedBy Curiosity\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Rock ZappedBy Curiosity\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837-600x392.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7113837.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock Zapped By Curiosity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>Roger Wiens, ChemCam lead scientist,\u00a0Los Alamos National Laboratory\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&amp;NewsID=1315\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;Our team is both thrilled and working hard, looking at the results&#8221;.\u00a0Sylvestre Maurice,\u00a0ChemCam deputy project scientist, Research Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France said that the instrument worked better than expected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rock or\u00a0<em>&#8220;Coronation&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0was just a target practice for Curiosity. The scientists are more interested in the composition changes of rocks during laser pulses. A single laser pulse lasted for about\u00a0five one-billionths of a second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3467 lazyload\" title=\"Laser fired on the rock\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Laser fired on the rock\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075-600x593.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075-298x295.jpg 298w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075.jpg 791w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/296;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3467\" title=\"Laser fired on the rock\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Laser fired on the rock\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075-600x593.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075-298x295.jpg 298w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PIA16075.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The technology that ChemCam is using has already been used in other extreme environments like inside nuclear reactors and on the sea floor. But it&#8217;s the first time when it is used in space.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mars-rover-test-fires-rock-zapping-laser-120819.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovery.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s space rover, Curiosity on Mars successfully completed the testing of its lasers by zapping its first rock with its laser beam on Sunday. It is an important step in the search of life-friendly habitats. Chemistry and Camera instrument or simply ChemCam device mounted on Curiosity fired a flat a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":3465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31,63],"tags":[16782,1595,1596,465,464,1597,1598,463,1339,462,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}