A LANL Scientist's Dream Takes Off to Zap Rocks on Mars
Abstract
Roger Wiens, with a team of 40 people at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the collaboration of the French space institute IRAP, created ChemCam, a laser spectrometer and telescope device aboard the Curiosity rover. ChemCam will blast rocks from as far as 7 meters, vaporize bits of their surfaces, and spectroscopically determine their chemical composition, aiding in the search for life on Mars, and making this scientist's boyhood dream a reality.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1047167
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; MARS; LANL; LOS ALAMOS; LOS ALAMOS LAB; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY; CURIOSITY ROVER; MARS ROVER; NASA; JPL; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; CHEMCAM; LAZER
Citation Formats
Wiens, Roger. A LANL Scientist's Dream Takes Off to Zap Rocks on Mars. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web.
Wiens, Roger. A LANL Scientist's Dream Takes Off to Zap Rocks on Mars. United States.
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"A LANL Scientist's Dream Takes Off to Zap Rocks on Mars". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1047167.
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abstractNote = {Roger Wiens, with a team of 40 people at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the collaboration of the French space institute IRAP, created ChemCam, a laser spectrometer and telescope device aboard the Curiosity rover. ChemCam will blast rocks from as far as 7 meters, vaporize bits of their surfaces, and spectroscopically determine their chemical composition, aiding in the search for life on Mars, and making this scientist's boyhood dream a reality.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Thu Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
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