NASA Image from NASA showing the Crater on Mars that was Gale landing rover Curiosity. The image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.PASADENA, KOMPAS.com — NASA Lander Spacecraft, rover Curiosity, for the first time directing the shooters lasernya into a rock on Mars. The six-wheeled robots that shoot for the purposes of research and science.
When performing a test target on Monday when Indonesia, fired 30 waves on the Curiosity of a nearby stone in the span of 10 seconds, and make a small hole.
A single shot of Chemical instruments and laser Camera Curiosity, or ChemCam, lasted five per one billion seconds, but consisting of more than one million Watts, enough to change the solid rock into liquid plasma ionized.
The three spectrometer in the later study of sparks shot a laser at 6,151 different wavelength of ultraviolet rays, infrared rays, visible, and to determine the composition of the stone has evaporated because of the gunfire.
According to NASA, the preliminary results of this experiment showed the instruments work well. Data from tests show, it even shows performance ChemCam is better than when conducted trials on Earth.
Since landing in Gale Crater last week two, Curiosity has tried a variety of the instrument, including laser. During the two-year mission, will fire the laser to the Curiosity of various rocks along its journey to Mount Sharp mount as high as 4.8 kilometers from the crater floor.
The purpose of his mission was to find out whether the Martian environment was ever allowed to live in.
In a few days ahead, controllers on Earth will be ordered to move the wheel and Curiosity to try short trips first.
The mission will cost an estimated 2.5 billion US dollars is the most expensive project Mars so far.
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