NASA | MicroSpec: Revolutionary Instrument on a Chip

Scientists may finally get a glimpse at our adolescent universe from a revolutionary new technology being developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. An instrument on a chip. This new, potentially game-changing instrument, called MicroSpec, is a far-infrared spectrometer that will be 10,000 times more sensitive and infinitely smaller than it's predecessor.

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[DjSharperimage]

cool,
when is this going to start being used?

[calvinbartel]

Amazing! When will it start being used?

[cidvisions]

Where is this platform deployed? Land based or space based?

[EdouardDubois]

2018: iPhone 9 to come with it's own infrared mass spectrometer! Still no Flash though...

[ThankYouESM]

If we could get a much more tiny MicroSpec to work in our smartphones, seems like it could function better than a Telescope at at Zoom of X500

[Ultra]

@IauthenticI did you read that news, the air conditionning in the tents of irak and afghanistan cost 20 bilion (year), more than nasas budget

[BahoUtot]

1:45 Is that man about to pee his pants or what.