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SuperCam mars rover

SuperCam mars rover

Since landing on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been hard at work analyzing rocks and soil on the floor of Jezero Crater with the SuperCam instrument. SuperCam features a rock-vaporizing laser, camera, and microphone that can gather data from a distance.

This video provides an instrument update by Hemani Kalucha, one of the SuperCam operations team members from Caltech.
The laser pits shown are about .009 inches (250 microns) in diameter and spaced 1/8 inch (3 millimeters) apart. Sounds of an Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flight captured by the SuperCam microphone can be heard in the video NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight.

SuperCam mars rover

SuperCam Power = 17.9 watts
Callibration Target = 1.18 inches diameter
Data Return: 15.5 megabits per experiment

NASA's Perseverance rover has been working. on its science mission with the help of the SuperCam instrument a rock-vaporizing laser and camera that examines rocks and soils. To learn more about SuperCam. So SuperCam looks out of the big circular window-- on top of the mast. -the white box And uses spectroscopy, which is just when light excites atoms in a rock and we get unique shifted wavelengths back to us. And so we use a combination of lasers and infrared vision, and that lets us do science. Even further out than the robotic arm. The lasers reach seven meters or 23 feet away, and the infrared much, much further. And that's not even all. We have a tiny, high-resolution camera and a microphone to hear Mars, and that's how we heard the helicopter.


>> And we can talk
about some of the images SuperCam has taken and why they are important to scientists?
>> Absolutely.
So we started by taking out images
and spectra near the rover,
see in this image, and as you can
the laser actually blows away the dust
and makes these small pits in the rocks,
and that lets us analyze material that's just below the surface of the rock, which is what we care about. And then we can record the sounds of the laser with our microphone, and it tells us something about the hardness of the rocks. And then starting Sol 26,
we were able to take pictures
of these long-distance targets, like Kodiak, and that really helps the rover team understand where to drive next for more close-up analysis. And these red circles you see are actually the infrared, telling us about the mineral content of these far-away outcrops. So that's how SuperCam figures out more. About the geological history of Mars, and we're so excited to see what the laser can do next.
you can also find all the raw images of the SuperCam mars rover. being sent back by the rover. >> Thank you so much for joining us today. To get the latest Update.

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