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We have now shot the laser about 400.000 times and it can do a lot more like 3 Million shots. We shoot as long as we can, pew pew! **Susanne

The whole MSL mission has discovered that Mars was in the past an Habitable world. This is HUGE. A few years ago, there was only one habitable world in the Solar System. Now we have two. That does not make a statistics, but that tells us a bit about the billions and billions of habitable worlds in the Universe. Mars WAS habitable, which means that there was liquid water, with neutral pH, CHNOPS elements, and energy. **Sylvestre

No, we don’t want to share our green martian friends with you ;)
But seriously, this would be an awesome discovery and it would be of course shared with the world but it would not be published before several tests and confirmations to be absolutely sure we were right.
Susanne

No, we have a 1GigaWatt/cm2 laser on Mars, so we don’t fear anyone, not even Marvin!
Charles

Hard to say. Money should be ok because it is such a great asset on Mars; we’ll have to use it to its end. The energy is decreasing indeed, slowly. It is predictable. What we fear is always an “unexpected” break… So we don’t know. Temperature differences between day and night is 90°C. That is hard on the hardware. Dust accumulating everywhere is also a pain.
**Sylvestre