NASA's intrepid Curiosity rover on Mars now has the ability to choose an interesting rock target and fire its scientific laser at it autonomously. Yep, that's right. A car-sized rover can select a ...

NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, is armed with a laser to zap rocks, not Martians. The laser can vaporize rocks at a distance of 23 feet.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is slated to fire its rock-zapping laser for the first time over the next few days, shortly before the 1-ton robot's maiden drive.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fires its ChemCam laser at a rock target in this artist's illustration. ChemCam has fired more than 350,000 shots on Mars as of July 2016.

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has has fired its first laser, analyzing the chemical composition of a Martian rock. Skip to main content. The homepage. The Verge logo.

You're looking at the next rock that NASA's Curiosity rover will shoot with its powerful laser and X-ray spectrometer as part of its first close-up science investigation on Mars.. The rover has ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which actually hasn't moved an inch since it precariously touched down on Mars two weeks ago, fired its nuclear-powered laser for the first time Sunday.

Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Curiosity was back at work on Monday, ...

Mars Curiosity Rover Spectrometers (Courtesy NASA/JPL) The ChemCam spectrometers consist of three separate units covering separate spectral ranges. Each spectrometer unit is a modified version of ...

(Phys.org) -- Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation." ...