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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

SHERLOC

 


"The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has analyzed a rock target with its spectrometer and camera for the first time since encountering an issue this past January. The instrument plays a key role in the mission’s search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed on June 17 that the instrument succeeded in collecting data."


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/detective-work-enables-perseverance-team-to-revive-sherloc-instrument?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=percy20240626

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