PIA13875: Preparing to Install APXS Sensor Head
Grad student Nicholas Boyd (left) and Principal Investigator Ralf Gellert, both of the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, prepare for the installation of the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer sensor head during testing at NASA's JPL.
 Mission:  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) 
 Spacecraft:  Curiosity
 Instrument:  Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer 
 Product Size:  4000 x 3000 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Other  
Information: 		 JPL News Release 2011-059 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA13875.tif (36 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA13875.jpg (1.122 MB)  

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Grad student Nicholas Boyd (left) and Principal Investigator Ralf Gellert, both of the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, prepare for the installation of the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer sensor head during testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2009-10-13