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This mosaic image shows the first target NASA's Curiosity rover aims to zap with the 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.
August 21, 2012 4:37 PM PDT
Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/LANL
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