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MSL To Receive A New Carbon-Sniffing Experiment
punkboi
post Jan 6 2010, 09:49 PM
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NASA's SUV-sized Mars rover now has the ability to check for possible ingredients or signatures of life. The U.S. space agency recently approved a new instrument for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) that can closely study carbon-containing compounds, if any show up in the dozens of planned soil and rock samples.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2...ngredients-life

And check out this hilarious article, which talks about the same experiment:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/msl_sam_enhancement/

"Nuclear-powered robot laser tank"... "Planet-prowlers"...

The author for some odd reason refuses to use the word "rover" more than once in this article. smile.gif


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post Jan 8 2010, 02:38 PM
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I have heard that the levels of perchlorate found by Phoenix, if present elsewhere on Mars, could pose a problem for organics detection experiments because (only) WHEN IT IS HEATED the perchlorate becomes reactive enough to destroy the organic compounds. Does this new twist on the SAM experiment on MSL take that into account?
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- punkboi   MSL To Receive A New Carbon-Sniffing Experiment   Jan 6 2010, 09:49 PM
- - djellison   Errr - SAM has been on the MSL instrument list sin...   Jan 6 2010, 10:51 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 6 2010, 06:51 PM) ...   Jan 6 2010, 11:16 PM
- - nprev   Yeah, I was a bit taken aback by the thread title ...   Jan 6 2010, 11:32 PM
- - mps   There's also a link in vjakne's blog: http...   Jan 7 2010, 04:44 PM
|- - SteveM   The Goddard release says: "Equipped with a ga...   Jan 7 2010, 06:46 PM
- - dmg   I have heard that the levels of perchlorate found ...   Jan 8 2010, 02:38 PM

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