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Away Team Droid Tech: The PIXL Instrument on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover

The Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) is a micro-focus X-ray fluorescence spectrometer mounted on the robotic arm of NASA’s Perseverance rover.

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