

Since the 1980s JPL has pioneered the development and deployment of Tunable Laser Spectrometers for NASA for in situ atmospheric and planetary applications. The vast majority of gaseous chemical substances exhibit...
These liquid-based chemical analysis technologies would not only enable us to identify life beyond Earth, should we encounter it during missions of exploration, but they would also provide the capability to characterize that life...
NASA considers the mass spectrometer as one of the instruments to be included in the payload of many planetary missions for in situ analysis. Developments in the Microdevices Laboratory (MDL) have found a completely...