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Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Missions Interview with
NASA Ames Research Center planetary geologist Jeff Moore

Recorded January 8, 2004, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.

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4.What are the major MER sensors? (41 SECONDS)

Jeff Moore: "Once you’ve driven up to the rock and you’re moving your detectors up against the rock, there’s basically three major sensors. The one which the public will most immediately understand is basically a microscope with a camera which allows the scientist to look at the shapes and sizes and relative distributions of the shapes and sizes of the smaller grains which make up a rock, particularly a sedimentary rock which is very diagnostic of the environment in which that rock was deposited. The other two sensors are spectrometers. One basically gives elemental abundances, and the other one gives the various states of iron oxidation.”.”

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