Here is a detailed paper describing CheMin, a neat X-ray lab for MSL capable of identifying almost any mineral.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/pdf/1608.pdf
Chemin now has its own http://chemin.lanl.gov/, with more technical detail.
NASA also has a http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/Portable_CheMin.html on it.
There also a http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/news/article/0%2C2564%2CALBQ_19855_3427502%2C00.html which gives some more background. Interestingly it says that Chemin has been part of two proposed Discovery missions (one to a comet, another to the moon). Does anyone know which missions they are?
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