{"id":5017,"date":"2016-07-22T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T00:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/nasas-curiosity-rover-can-now-fire-its-laser-on-its-own-what-could-possibly-go-wrong\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T00:17:54","slug":"nasas-curiosity-rover-can-now-fire-its-laser-on-its-own-what-could-possibly-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/22\/nasas-curiosity-rover-can-now-fire-its-laser-on-its-own-what-could-possibly-go-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA's Curiosity rover can now fire its laser on its own. What could possibly go wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fire away, Curiosity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA’s intrepid Curiosity rover on Mars now has the ability to choose an interesting rock target and fire its scientific laser at it autonomously.<\/p>\n

Yep, that’s right.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A car-sized rover can select a rock it wants to shoot with a laser and then actually fire it all without human intervention.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Latest Curiosity rover selfies show off Mars’ red surface<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Curiosity isn’t just firing its laser for fun, either. The plasma produced from the zapped rock helps scientists learn more about exactly what the target is made of.<\/p>\n

The rover’s new autonomy is made possible by using software that helps Curiosity pick out rock targets based on brightness and size parameters laid out by scientists ahead of time, according to NASA. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fire away, Curiosity.\u00a0 NASA’s intrepid Curiosity rover on Mars now has the ability to choose an interesting rock target and fire its scientific laser at it autonomously. Yep, that’s right.\u00a0 A car-sized rover can select a rock it wants to … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3345,2984,934,960,958],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-curiosity-rover","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}