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they finally reached Mars with the rover at 6.32am London time. It was encased in a capsule at 13,200 miles per hour (21,243 kilometers per hour), 17 times the speed of sound. The landing was a major initial hurdle for a two-year, $2.5 billion project whose primary focus is chemistry and geology.
The rover comes equipped with an array of sophisticated instruments capable of analyzing samples of soil, rocks and atmosphere on the spot and beaming results back to Earth. One is a laser gun that can zap a rock from 23 feet away to create a spark whose spectral image is analyzed by a special telescope to discern the mineral's chemical composition.
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