Today on Mars: Curiosity Uses Its Laser as a Sand Blaster

Curiosity is scooping lots of sand nowadays, and using its laser to study what the sand contains. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been scooping Martian sand inside itself to rinse out its instruments, and it’s making some measurements while doing it. The rover is using almost its entire suite of instruments to study rocks and particles of dust on Mars. In this gif above, you can see a before and after image of a laser blast the rover finished on Saturday. The Chemistry and Camera i...