Sentences with phrase «laser spectrometer»
A laser spectrometer is a device that uses lasers to measure the composition and properties of substances or materials. It can analyze the wavelengths of light to determine the chemical composition or identify specific molecules. Full definition
The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that analyzes the soil and atmosphere around the rover using a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a tunable laser spectrometer to detect oxygen and carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide and methane samples to see if they are biochemical in origin.
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CCD camera on Raman Laser Spectrometer (Raman LIBS) which can detect the presence of chemical compounds including minerals and also specific types of «biomarker» chemicals indicative of past or present life
For this purpose, they used the ISOWAT diode laser spectrometer specially developed by IMK for use on aircraft.
Other notable features of the Mars 2020 rover include: a new drill that can dig deeper (where microbes could still be living today), a UV laser spectrometer (amusingly called SHERLOC), and a very - high - res SuperCam.
From in situ measurements made over a 20 - month period by the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on Curiosity at Gale Crater, we report detection of background levels of atmospheric methane of mean value 0.69 ± 0.25 ppbv at the 95 % confidence interval (CI).
But several years ago, Robert Goldstein, a geologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and Robert Burrus of the U.S. Geological Survey happened to test salt from one of these rocks with a laser spectrometer and found that it contained something surprisingly acidic.
Whereas Earth - based observers must sift possible martian signals from the far larger ones from Earth's atmosphere, Curiosity's Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) probes isolated gulps of martian gases.
Christopher Webster of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the instrument lead for the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS), Curiosity's atmospheric analyzer.
Raman on Mars NASA will also develop the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) ultraviolet (UV) laser spectrometer.
From October 2012 to June 2013, Curiosity used its Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) six times to search for traces of methane in the Martian atmosphere.
The Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) in SAM provides the first search conducted within the Martian atmosphere for this molecule.