Spectrometer to be landed on the Moon by a Private Company

[sheeny (Al)]

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/2009/0902...l/457770b.html

Al.

[renormalised (Carl)]

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