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To: Free ThinkerNY

What does the acronym SAM mean really? What type of instrument is it and what is its output? Then we might understand what the announcement could be.


70 posted on 11/20/2012 9:16:21 PM PST by 38special (I've been banned from commenting on Bill O'Reilly's Facebook feed...seriously)
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To: 38special

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/instruments/spectrometers/sam/

SAM is for “sample analysis” - covers a whole bunch of things.


71 posted on 11/20/2012 9:20:28 PM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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