Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Success for the Thales Space Laser Headed to Mars

http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Success_For_Thales_Space_Laser_Headed_To_Mars_999.html

The Thales space laser programme in Paris has completed work on a a compact low weight laser that will operate for 2 years on mars. This laser will help to better analyze martian rocks. Tests have shown the the new laser and withstand impacts of 2000 g's.

1 comment:

Alex Paauwe said...

Is this the laser Bernie was talking about in the beginning of the year? The one that vaporizes rocks? The article just talked about the amount of energy it puts out, but I don't really know if its vaproizing-powerful. Anyone?