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Sam - Sample Analysis At Mars, GCMS and Laser Spectrometer

Redstone View Member Profile	Apr 27 2005, 12:52 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 134 Joined: 13-March 05 Member No.: 191	Continuing Astrobiology Magazine's series of articles (and this board's series of corresponding threads, here is the article on the SAM instrument package. There's been less information on this instrument on the web so far, compared to the others, (there's no website for SAM that I know) so some of this I hadn't seen before. One interesting factoid is that the package can analyze 84 samples. That beats the couple of dozen RAT scratches of MER! The article also has some more discussion of Chemin. There's also a jpeg of the instrument package here. There's a prize for anyone who can explain all the abbreviations. I hope Pete Theisinger can squeeze it all into the MSL bus! Edit to add: You can read a 4 page pdf description of SAM from 2003 here.

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