Radiation Assessment Detector
February 16, 2009
| Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI |
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About the size of a small toaster, the Radiation Assessment Detector will look skyward and use a stack of silicon detectors and a crystal of cesium iodide to measure galactic cosmic rays and solar particles that pass through the Martian atmosphere.
Image credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
