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Nearly 140 million miles away on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is searching for life and measuring the age and makeup of the Red Planet. The fourth rover to explore our planetary neighbor uses laser spectrometry to analyze the elements found on the surface by firing a laser at a sample and studying the gas released from impact.
Laser and electronics experts in the Photonics Technology Department and xLab/Electrical and Software Engineering Department at The Aerospace Corporation are establishing and maturing new laser technology to enable candidate instruments to be sent to the moon and planets in the solar system and determine their age from an elemental analysis of collected surface samples.
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