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Comet and Meteorite Materials - Studied by Chemometrics of Spectroscopic Data

 

COSIMA XM  -  Flight Module

 

Assembling the instrument for operation on-board of Rosetta (pictures: Jochen Kissel).

The instrument COSIMA on-board of Rosetta consisted of three main parts.

(1) A target storage and manipulation unit (TMU); (2) a microscope with camera (COSISCOPE); and (3) a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (TOF-SIMS). Mass of COSIMA was 20 kg, power consumption was 20 W.

 

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