The MicroSpec instrument (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The MicroSpec instrument

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The MicroSpec instrument (onto a silicon wafer measuring just four inches) could provide a picture of how the cosmos developed into the kind of place that could support life like that found on Earth.

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