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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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Title:
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Powerful Yet Tiny Machine
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Powerful Yet Tiny Machine
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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.
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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.
Original Caption Released with Image
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Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/University of Mainz
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NASA/JPL/University of Mainz
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Produced By:
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JPL
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JPL
Produced By
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Mission:
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mission
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Spacecraft:
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Spirit
Spacecraft
Spirit
Spacecraft
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Instrument:
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
Instrument
Moessbauer Spectrometer
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Product Size:
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756 samples x 716 lines
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756 samples x 716 lines
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Spectrometer
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Spectrometer
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Spirit
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Spirit
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Mars
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Mars
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars
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Mars
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Image #:
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PIA05111
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UID:
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA05111
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA05111
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