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Auto-Focused on Details in Yellowjacket on Mars

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This image from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows detailed texture of a rock target called "Yellowjacket" on Mars' Mount Sharp. This was the first rock target for ChemCam after checkout of restored capability for autonomous focusing. The image covers a patch of rock surface about 2.5 inches (6 centimeters) across. It was taken on May 15, 2015, during the mission's 986th Martian day, or sol. ChemCam's Remote Micro-Imager camera, on top of Curiosity's mast, captured the image from a distance of about 8 feet (2.4 meters). ChemCam also hit the target with laser pulses and recorded spectrographic information from the resulting flashes to reveal the — NASA JPL · 2015. ABD devlet eseri: kamu mali, ticari islerde de serbestce kullanilabilir.

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