NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, began analysing a rock called “Jake Matijevic”, which was named after the surface operations system chief engineer.
Matijevic passed away in late August, two weeks after Curiosity touched-down on Mars; and NASA is honouring Matijevic by naming Curiosity’s first test subject after him.
Curiosity will examine “rock target Jake” using its arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer and its mast-mounted, laser-firing ChemCam.
Source: NASA
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