Sample Analysis at Mars Instrument, Side Panels Off

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Aug. 27, 2012

An instrument suite that will analyze the chemical ingredients in samples of Martian atmosphere, rocks and soil during the mission of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, is shown here during assembly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., in 2010.

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