Mars 2020 Rover's PIXL to Focus X-Rays on Tiny Targets

Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 19:00 in Astronomy & Space

An X-ray instrument for NASA's next Mars rover combines a sharpshooting spectrometer and a camera, to identify and map chemical elements in targets at microscopic scale.

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