Spectrometer to be landed on the Moon by a Private Company [Archive]

sheeny

13-02-2009, 01:18 PM

The spectrometer originally planned to be sent to Mars by a Dutch company as part of an ESA mission now plans to send the device to the moon with a private company. The spectrometer on the Mars mission has been scaled down. It is planned to be landed on the moon by 2011 and will analyse the lunar soils.

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090210/full/457770b.html

Al.

renormalised

14-02-2009, 12:48 PM

Interesting article...probably (part) of the way of the future.