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[NIAC 2023] Radioactive Flashlight for Moon Rovers

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The Value of Low Cost X-Ray Spectrometers for Asteroids

The NIAC team is looking at the potential for x-ray spectrometers to be used by asteroid mining companies. They're trying to get more granular data than current sources like cosmic rays and background radiation. The idea of having a low cost x-ray Spectrometer that you could send as well as power source, there's a ton of value in that," he says.

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