@jean1126 We do this by sending the testing equipment to the Moon or Mars, rather than brining the rocks back here. The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are each equipped with three different kinds of spectrometers. And we did recover rocks from the moon, as well as retrieve a lander's camera from an earlier mission. Upon analysis of the camera, a bacterial colony (from Earth) was found alive inside it! But yeah... to the MOON!!
astrobiological exploration should focus on basaltic glasses (glassy crust on rock and desert surfaces) and space dust IMO. Many such glasses have recently been confirmed to be microbial in origin on Earth. Similar crusts are present on Mars & other extra-terrestrial bodies. It may be that microbes even helped form the solar system?!? by acting on pre-solar/solar accretion disk rocks and dust? Could be a new way of thinking about the cosmology too, if such microbes exist in deep space.
great video ..but if we don't 'land' on the moon, mars etc...how .. do you get the samples to study? The ISS is great but we NEED to get our feet on solid ground...the MOON!
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Great visuals! I like them! Makes learning much more interesting and keeps viewer's attention and interest.
NASA plus Molecules= Fun!
Nasa, Thanks for commenting my modest video. It is an great honor for me.
Your channel is a Very Nice and Great Channel.
Very kewl way of describing this instrument Nasa! A+!
@DisturbedRocks31 This is NASA's actual channel.
My hat is off to you guys.Fascinating and informative stuff. I can now impress my friends by telling them what and how a mass spectrometer works.
whoever is making these futuristic looking videos KEEP IT UP!
they are soooo cool, look like they are from the movies =)
@TK3C I think they actually have their own version of a windows like operating system, not any sort of public release of any microsoft product.
neat tools, I use them at work, really cool, I like the electron microscope better though.
@CounterNerd Good to know, this will surley help me in a life or death situation later in life.
great video, better than many others!!
Nice Hologram Device !
Do you have to clean the mass spectrometer each time you use it?
cool effects!! makes learning more interesting...
is that visual technology really exist? or just computer effect?
It does
These vids are great!
I'd love to work with stuff like this :D
This is amazing! You guys rock. :)
speculate for me, if a molecule contained a hereto yet unknown element, would the mass spectrometer be able to determine what it is?
I'm still not sure what it is, but it looks like a minigun so I'm going to asume it's something just as awesome.
It's about to go critical!
finally an interesting video!!
Good to know,nasa,good to know.
Life is like a Mass Spectrometer, you never know what molecule you're gonna get.
Go the scientists, Give it all to the scientists to run.
@jean1126
We do this by sending the testing equipment to the Moon or Mars, rather than brining the rocks back here.
The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are each equipped with three different kinds of spectrometers.
And we did recover rocks from the moon, as well as retrieve a lander's camera from an earlier mission. Upon analysis of the camera, a bacterial colony (from Earth) was found alive inside it!
But yeah... to the MOON!!
Cool.
astrobiological exploration should focus on basaltic glasses (glassy crust on rock and desert surfaces) and space dust IMO.
Many such glasses have recently been confirmed to be microbial in origin on Earth. Similar crusts are present on Mars & other extra-terrestrial bodies.
It may be that microbes even helped form the solar system?!? by acting on pre-solar/solar accretion disk rocks and dust?
Could be a new way of thinking about the cosmology too, if such microbes exist in deep space.
cool!
i can totally tell just by looking at it. There are several pink molecules present in large rotating cloud of rainbow nerds
simple is good
@azotjakter09 ...but that's two words...?
if they could make a molecule dissector they can probably make a matter maker thingy
@JPO1618 OK then i have two words for you:MASS EFECT
@azotjakter09 one word: DAMN RIGHT!!
@DisturbedRocks31 It's the real deal.
Now only if we can figure out how to explore this stuff without destroying ourselves, that would be great.
great video ..but if we don't 'land' on the moon, mars etc...how .. do you get the samples to study? The ISS is great but we NEED to get our feet on solid ground...the MOON!
one word :MASS EFECT
@orestisDisturbed one word:MASS EFECT 2
this is as clear us telling how gravity works..
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how my brain feels
pretty colors :|
WoW! Is this channel actually managed by NASA? Or is it some random NASA wannabe?
NASA a little late to the game ...