07.30.2020 - By U.S. Department of Energy
It zaps. It snaps. It scans. It even dusts! SuperCam is the NASA Mars Perseverance Rover’s multitalented “Swiss Army Knife” of planetary science. In this episode, we hear from the Los Alamos National Laboratory team behind SuperCam about what it’s like to shoot lasers at rocks on Mars — and how it could help us find hard evidence of ancient extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet.