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    alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) is a spectrometer that analyses the chemical element composition of a sample from scattered alpha particles and...
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    particle counter should be placed. Varying B, this makes possible to measure the energy spectrum of alpha particles in an alpha particle spectrometer...
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  • and RTGs for spacecraft. It served as the α-source in the alpha particle X-ray spectrometers of several space probes, including the Sojourner, Spirit,...
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    13, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2012. "MSL Science Corner: Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)". NASA/JPL. Archived from the original on March 20...
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    and soils. One Mössbauer measurement took about 12 hours. Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS), developed by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry...
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    The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a particle physics experiment module that is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS). The experiment...
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    Hypersensitive Ionosphere and Atmosphere—Langmuir Probe (RAMBHA-LP) An alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) will derive the chemical composition and infer the...
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    Mössbauer spectrometer (MB) MIMOS II – used for close-up investigations of the mineralogy of iron-bearing rocks and soils. Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS)...
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    beam of charged particles such as electrons (in an electron microscope for example), protons (see PIXE) or a beam of X-rays (see X-ray fluorescence, or...
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  • W X Y Z See also Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) Atomic emission spectroscopy (AES) Atomic fluorescence spectroscopy (AFS) Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer...
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    include the first scientific validation of water on Mars, Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on board the Curiosity rover, and the Barcode of Life...
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    Martian Soil and Rocks Returned by the Mobile Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer: Preliminary Results from the X-ray Mode". Science. 278 (5344): 1771–1774. Bibcode:1997Sci...
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    rovers Examples of instruments onboard landed rovers include: Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (MPF + MER + MSL) CheMin (MSL) Chemistry and Camera complex...
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    rovers each carry an Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), a thermal emission spectrometer (Mini-TES), and Mössbauer spectrometer to identify minerals...
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    mass, the term "rays" is consistent with known particles such as cathode rays, canal rays, alpha rays, and beta rays. Meanwhile "cosmic" ray photons, which...
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    Advanced Composition Explorer (category Cosmic-ray experiments)
    Cosmic-Ray Isotope Spectrometer for the Advanced Composition Explorer". Space Science Reviews. 86: 285–356. Bibcode:1998SSRv...86..285S. CiteSeerX 10.1...
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    Institute of High Energy Physics (category Particle accelerators)
    Tiangong-2 Yangbajing International Cosmic Ray Observatory (YBJ) Yutu (rover); IHEP built its alpha particle X-ray spectrometer Institute home page v t e...
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    3 with Barnacle Bill. The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) was used to determine its composition, the spectrometer taking ten hours to make a...
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    Mössbauer spectrometer (MB) MIMOS II – used for close-up investigations of the mineralogy of iron-bearing rocks and soils. Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS)...
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  • equipped with an Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) and a Mössbauer Spectrometer (MB). The APXS uses alpha particles and X-rays to determine the...
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    microscopes (STEM). X-ray beam excitation is used in X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometers. A detector is used to convert X-ray energy into voltage signals;...
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    region, not just in the area explored by Opportunity. The Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) found rather high levels of phosphorus in the rocks...
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    Scintillation counter (category Spectrometers)
    photons produced by the x-ray or gamma photon) it is therefore possible to discern the original photon's energy. The spectrometer consists of a suitable...
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  • antiparticle spectrometer (GAPS) is a planned experiment that will use a high-altitude balloon flying in Antarctica to look for antideuteron particles from outer...
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    the rover. Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS): This device can irradiate samples with alpha particles and map the spectra of X-rays that are re-emitted...
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    PMID 15297662. S2CID 31102951. Gellert, Ralf; et al. (2006). "The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS): results from Gusev crater and calibration report"...
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    An optical spectrometer (spectrophotometer, spectrograph or spectroscope) is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion...
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    camera), a heat flow and physical properties package, an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, a magnetometer, a seismometer, a soil penetrating device...
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    similar instruments: panoramic cameras, an infrared spectrometer and an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS). Yutu is also equipped with a robotic arm...
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    infrared spectrometer) for sensing targets at a distance, a microscopic imager, a Mössbauer spectrometer and an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer. The RAT...
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