Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Powerful Yet Tiny Machine
Original Caption Released with Image:
This image taken at JPL shows the Moessbauer spectrometer, an instrument on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit that detects iron-bearing minerals in martian rocks and soil. Located on the rover's instrument deployment device, or "arm," this machine uses two pieces of radioactive cobalt-57, each about the size of pencil erasers, to determine with a high degree of accuracy the composition and abundance of iron-bearing minerals too difficult to detect by other means.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Mainz
Produced By:
JPL
Mission:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft:
Spirit
Instrument:
Moessbauer Spectrometer
Product Size:
756 samples x 716 lines
facet_what:
Spectrometer
facet_what:
Spirit
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
Moessbauer Spectrometer
facet_what:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
facet_where:
Mars
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Image #:
PIA05111
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA05111
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Powerful Yet Tiny Machine