Toaster oven-sized boffin box bound for Mars to search for life

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/toaster_sized_boffin_box_bound_for_mars_to_search_for_life/

A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gathered last week to bid farewell to a mass spectrometer as it began its journey to the red planet via an assembly plant in Italy.

The instrument is a key component of a toaster oven-sized lab, called the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA), which will detect evidence of complex organic compounds in samples retrieved from deep below the surface of Mars.

Toaster oven-sized boffin box bound for Mars to search for life

May 25, 2018, 4:25pm UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/toaster_sized_boffin_box_bound_for_mars_to_search_for_life/ > A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gathered last week to bid farewell to a mass spectrometer as it began its journey to the red planet via an assembly plant in Italy. > The instrument is a key component of a toaster oven-sized lab, called the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA), which will detect evidence of complex organic compounds in samples retrieved from deep below the surface of Mars.