MicroSpec: Revolutionary Instrument on a Chip
Scientists may finally get a glimpse at our adolescent universe from a revolutionary new technology being developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. An instrument on a chip. This new, potentially game-changing instrument, called MicroSpec, is a far-infrared spectrometer that will be 10,000 times more sensitive and infinitely smaller than it's predecessor.
Normally the size of an office desk, this far-infrared spectrometer can fit in the palm of your hand.
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Video editor
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
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Interviewees
- Samuel Harvey Moseley (NASA/GSFC)
- Carl M. Stahle (NASA/GSFC)
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Narrator
- Robert C. Garner (UMBC)
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Producer
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
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Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Writers
- Lori J. Keesey (SGT)
- Laura Motel (UMBC)
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, June 30, 2011.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.
Series
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This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
MicroSpec: Revolutionary Instrument on a Chip
(ID: 2010135)
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Jesse Allen (Raytheon)