PIA16072-MarsCuriosityRover-20120809.jpg

Summary

Description	English: PIA16072: Curiosity's First Rock Star This mosaic image shows the first target NASA's Curiosity rover aims to zap with its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. ChemCam will be firing a laser at this rock, provisionally named N165, and analyzing the glowing, ionized gas, called plasma, that the laser excites. The instrument will analyze that spark with a telescope and identify the chemical elements in the target. The rock is just off to the right of the rover. This image is part of a set of images obtained by Curiosity's Mast Camera on Aug. 8 PDT (Aug. 9 EDT). See PIA16051 for the larger mosaic. JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Date	9 August 2012
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16072 ( image link )
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/LANL

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