Laser-zapped regolith observed by #Perseverance's SuperCam.
Although they appear to be large, the "pebbles" in these regolith images are actually grain sized, many of them of sub-millimeter sizes. So the laser does blast some of them away.
SUPERCAM_RMI
RMC: 30.0000, Sol: 594
LMST: 13:16:23
UTC: 2022-10-22T01:57:41
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP