03 October 2016
Martian soil helps boost its atmosphere with noble gases
...surface. The team behind the discovery have been using the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument on board the rover, or SAM for short, to run...that some isotopic ratios, when compared with earlier samples, were a bit different than expected. The ...
01 November 2021
Curiosity finds organic molecules in Mars sand dune
... environments in Gale Crater in search of organic compounds, primarily using its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument. SAM is a suite of three instruments, including a mass spectrometer, gas chromatograph, and tunable laser spectrometer, designed...
