Mass Specs Go Out of This World

Jul 23, 2010

This fancy video from NASA goes into what a quadrupole mass spec is and why the agency uses them to study samples from Mars and other NASA missions.

HT: Kermit Murray at the Mass Spectrometry Blog

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