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Was there ever life on Mars? Perseverance’s SHERLOC laser sniffs for microscopic clues
NASA named the ultraviolet laser SHERLOC, which stands for “Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals.” (NASA/JPL-Caltech/)The chassis of NASA’s Perseverance rover bristles with more than a dozen cameras (and, for the first time, a microphone), but the Martian explorer’s business end is a block of sensors engineers lovingly refer to as “The Turret.” Using a brawny seven-foot robotic arm, Perseverance can extend and swivel the nearly 100-pound instrumentation hub to park its discerning eyes just inches away from rocks of interest. There, it can spot gritty features just dozens of micrometers across, too tiny for human perception.The turret’s main sci

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