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PIA14760: Curiosity at Work on Mars (Artist's Concept)

This artist's concept depicts the rover Curiosity, of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, as it uses its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the composition of a rock surface.

Mission:	Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Spacecraft:	Curiosity
Product Size:	2127 x 1259 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA14760.tif (8.044 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA14760.jpg (314.9 kB)

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This artist's concept depicts the rover Curiosity, of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, as it uses its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the composition of a rock surface. ChemCam fires laser pulses at a target and views the resulting spark with a telescope and spectrometers to identify chemical elements. The laser is actually in an invisible infrared wavelength, but is shown here as visible red light for purposes of illustration.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, and designed and built Curiosity.

More information about Curiosity is at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2011-11-15