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Description	English: PIA16572: Inspecting Soils Across Mars http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16572 Target Name: Mars Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Spacecraft: Curiosity Instrument: Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (MSL) Product Size: 1600 x 1200 pixels (width x height) Produced By: JPL Full-Res TIFF: PIA16572.tif (5.762 MB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA16572.jpg (141.9 kB) Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format (possibly reduced in size from original) Original Caption Released with Image: This graph compares the elemental composition of typical soils at three landing regions on Mars: Gusev Crater, where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit traveled; Meridiani Planum, where Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity still roams; and now Gale Crater, where NASA's newest Curiosity rover is currently investigating. The data from the Mars Exploration Rovers are from several batches of soil, while the Curiosity data are from soil taken inside a wheel scuff mark called "Portage" and examined with its Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS). These early results indicate that the samples investigated by Curiosity are very similar to those at previous landing sites. Error bars indicate the variations for the given number of soils measured for the Mars Exploration Rovers along the traverse. Note that concentrations of silicon dioxide and iron oxide were divided by 10, and nickel, zinc and bromine levels were multiplied by 100. JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. For more about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/mars, and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Guelph Image Addition Date: 2012-12-03
Date	3 December 2012, 15:06:16
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16572.jpg
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Guelph

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