Ocean Optics Spectrometers on Curiosity Rover Project
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…