Sunday, 6 September 2009

Studying the composition of Martian rocks: building and testing a new concept of Raman spectroscopy

The next robotic Mars exploration missions that will fly to the Red Planet will focus the aim of their research on the "Search for life". Both the Mars Science Laboratory (NASA) and ExoMars (ESA) have this primary objective and thus they will need scientific tools to accomplish this task. The analyses of rocks and soils will be a priority and such analyses include elemental and mineralogical composition to possible organic molecules.


http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=32300

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