1. Zapped Martian Rock
By Michael Mellett

2. FACTS
The NASA Mars rover named Curiosity has zapped its
first rock.The rover zapped the first rock with a high
powered 1 million watt laser gun.At the science lab the
scientists are looking at the rock that has been zapped

3. QUOTES
“we got a great spectrum-lots of signal
“after eight years of building the instrument it has paid off

4. BACKGROUND
INFORMATION
• The laser is called the ChemCam this laser is ,ade two
take 14,000 measurments throughout the robots
journey on mars
•

5. Editorial
I think that the Curiosity is going to be
a good help to he NASA scientists to find
out about the planet Mars and the diffrent
things on mars

6. Sources of Information
www.stuff.co.nz.
google images.