Future Planetary Instrument Capabilities Made Possible by Micro- and Nanotechnology

Getty, Stephanie A ; Lim, Lucy F ; Grubisic, Andrej ; Southard, Adrian E ; Ferrance, Jerome ; Balvin, Manuel A ; Li, Xiang ; Cornish, Timothy ; Elsila, Jamie ; Hess, Larry(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States)

关键词: ELECTRON PROBES;    FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS;    HEAVY ELEMENTS;    MASS SPECTROSCOPY;    MICROANALYSIS;    MINIATURIZATION;    NANOTECHNOLOGY;    PLANETARY COMPOSITION;    PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS;    PLANETARY MASS;    PROTOTYPES;    SPACE MISSIONS;    TOPOGRAPHY;    X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;   

RP-ID  :  GSFC-E-DAA-TN67623

学科分类：天文学(综合)

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

A number of new instrument capabilities are currently in maturation for future in situ use on planetary science missions. Moving beyond the impressive in situ instrumentation already operating in planetary environments beyond Earth will enable the next step in scientific discovery. The approach for developing beyond current instrumentation requires a careful assessment of science-driven capability advancement. To this end, two examples of instrument technology development efforts that are leading to new and important analytical capabilities for in situ planetary science will be discussed: (1) an instrument prototype enabling the interface between liquid separation techniques and laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry and (2) an addressable excitation source enabling miniaturized electron probe microanalysis for elemental mapping of light and heavy elements.