An image showing an engineer prepares the ion detector for integration to the SUrface Dust Analyzer (SUDA) sensor head at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. SUDA is extremely sensitive and will be able to detect amino acids in concentrations as low as one part per million within water ice.
Source: NASA/LASP-CU Boulder 
Published: December 29, 2021

An engineer prepares the ion detector for integration to the SUrface Dust Analyzer (SUDA) sensor head at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. SUDA is extremely sensitive and will be able to detect amino acids in concentrations as low as one part per million within water ice.

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