Surveying the Building Blocks of the Solar System
This blog post originated in the 2018 Science Mission Directorate Science and Technology Report.
PROJECT
High-Performance In Situ Dust Analyzer (Hyperdust)
KEY POINTS
Hyperdust’s unique ion optics design combines the ability to provide high-performance composition measurements with the aperture that is needed to detect a statistically significant number of particles in space over a...
Mars 2020 Rover
Mars 2020 Rover Launch
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