Los Alamos instrument to shine light on Mars habitability

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 08:50 in Astronomy & Space

With the successful launch of the Mars Science Laboratory on Saturday, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and scientists from the French space institute IRAP are poised to begin focusing the energy of a million light bulbs on the surface of the Red Planet to help determine whether Mars was or is habitable.

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