NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Payload Announced – Two JPL Instruments Make the Cut

 

LATEST NEWS NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations. Read more Mars 2020 Rover's PIXL to Focus X-Rays on Tiny Targets An X-ray instrument for NASA's next Mars rover combines a sharpshooting spectrometer and a camera, to identify and map chemical elements in targets at microscopic scale. Read more SHERLOC to Micro-Map Mars Minerals and Carbon Rings One of the seven instruments chosen for the payload of NASA's next Mars rover would detect key minerals and carbon chemicals and show where they are, at microscopic scale. Read more

 

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