Reported from Florida on August 5, 2012. Three Ocean Optics instruments have completed their eight month journey to Mars to study soil composition as part of the ChemCam mission. NASA’s Mars Science Lab rover, Curiosity, launched in November with customized Ocean Optics HR2000 spectrometers. The Curiosity Rover has the most advanced scientific instrumentation ever used…
Good news coming from Edinburgh Instrument that researchers at the University of Connecticut have been using the LP920 flash photolysis spectrometer from Edinburgh Instruments as part of their research into plant light harvesting complexes1. A paper has been published2 with collaborators at Kwansei Gakuin University examining the efficiency of variants of the Peridinin-Chlorophyll a-Protein (PCP)…
Belfast, 11 December, 2012 Latest news from Andor Technology websites, that Andor iXon 897 EMCCD become prospecting leads of success in supporting on Earth-like exoplanets search. The ultra-sensitive EMCCD device was chosen by the Stellar Observation Network Group (SONG) following a study led by Kennet Harpsoe from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation in…