Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team have received the first photos from the instrument's remote micro imager. The successful capture of ChemCam's first 10 photos sets ...

A team of scientists using the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered the highest amounts of iron, ...

When I was in graduate school, I had a bad habit of complaining that things couldn’t possibly get worse. “Don’t challenge worse; things can always get worse,” a lab mate cautioned. My friend could ...

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team got a digital thumbs up about the operational readiness of their instrument just hours after the rover landed on Martian soil late ...

While Curiosity has been getting a good look around its landing spot on Mars, taking in the sights and sending back some impressive views of distant hills and Gale Crater's enormous central peak, it's ...

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover ChemCam team, including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, squeezed in a little extra target practice after zapping the first ...

In the next few blogs on Anablog, I will be getting into as much depth as I can regarding the instrumentation on the Mars Curiosity Rover. I will be starting with the ChemCam—here is the beginning of ...

The laser on board the ChemCam instrument that is busy collecting evidence on Mars was the first tool to show that water was present in the planet's soil, according to one of a series of papers just ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 15, 2013 — Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team will present more than two dozen posters and talks next week during the 44th Lunar and Planetary ...