If you fire the ChemCam Laser at a vehicle, it should take damage. Sensitive Instruments and Wheels should get destroyed if enough energy from the beams hit them.
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- Legacy ID
- 3545754963
- Severity
- None
- Resolution
- Not A Bug
- Reproducibility
- N/A
Steps To Reproduce
Currently it's not possible to destroy any equipment
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I really don't think that should be the case - maybe damage optics if you point it at a camera, but that's it. The laser used for LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) is pretty, well, weak. It isn't the badass pewpew future science gun we all secretly want it to be. The real LIBS/ChemCam system on MSL uses a 1067nm infrared laser that uses tiny pulses, only five nanoseconds each. 50 pulses, the first 5 to clean the target off, and after that to analyze. I do not believe it could actually break anything other than cameras, especially wheels, which are relatively thick. The area it blasts only is a bit over a millimeter deep from the original surface.
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Actually this is already the case. Try aiming the laser at a camera and do 2 analyses of it. You will see it breaks the camera. It will not do damage to "tough" objects such as wheels, arms and so on.