By Pete Spotts
www.csmonitor.com9-19-12
NASAs Mars rover Curiosity is eying a target for the first tandem test of two instruments crucial to the rovers mission of determining whether its new home, Gale Crater, as well as the craters central Mt. Sharp, could have hosted life early in the planets history.
At 16 inches wide and about 10 inches tall, the target rock looks like a miniature Great Pyramid of Giza, with one face artisans neglected to maintain.
But its just the ticket for testing the rovers ChemCam and and Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS), a complementary set of tools for determining the composition of the rocks and soils the rover will encounter during its two-year prime mission on Mars....
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