NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own

Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 11:41 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is using onboard software to select rocks to zap with its laser spectrometer and to autonomously point the instrument at the targets.

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