Tuesday, August 21, 2012

CH4 Hunter

We've had a productive first two days at the Canadian Space Agency testing our methane-hunting scenario.  The rover drove to many locations on the Mars Emulation Terrain and gathered measurements from an active spectrometer, which bounces a laser off retroreflectors, to try to locate a hidden source of methane.  Tomorrow we'll switch over to a passive spectrometer scenario where we'll be using the sun as a light source (instead of bouncing a laser off a retroreflector).