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Tricorder Tech: Offworld Away Team Practice With A Portable Spectrometer

by Keith CowingFebruary 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Checking the mineral composition of some weathered rocks with the HaloSpec Spectrometer. -- ESA

Checking the mineral composition of some weathered rocks with the HaloSpec Spectrometer.

Photo: ESA – L.Ricci October 27, 2016 larger image

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Keith Cowing

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp... More by Keith Cowing

Tricorder Tech: Offworld Away Team Practice With A Portable Spectrometer

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