NASA Ames Scientists Develop MSL Science Instrument (2011)
2011 · Short film · 2 min
Synopsis
David Blake, a research scientist at NASA Ames, led the development of CheMin, one of ten scientific instruments onboard Curiosity, the Mars Scientific Laboratory. The Powder X-Ray Diffraction tool will search for clues on the Martian surface for an environment that might have once harbored life.
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- Running time
- 2 minutes
- Collection
- NASA
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- ames
- chemin
- msl
- mars
- science
- laboratory
- powder
- x-ray
- diffraction
- xrd
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