Planets and Moons  ID: 11017

Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Employee Profiles

Released on June 29, 2012
These videos give an inside perspective on what it's like to work on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite of instruments! Learn more about the people who work on SAM here.
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This video profiles Jess Lewis, designer of SAM's Solid Sample Inlet Tube (SSIT). The SSIT is essentially a high-tech funnel that helps direct the Mars soil into the SAM suite for analysis.

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This video profiles Dan Carrigan, the engineer primarily responsible for building SAM's QMS, or Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer. QMS's purpose is to break down the Mars atmosphere and vaporized soil into their components and help scientists identify what those components are.

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This video profiles Synthia Tonn, a junior engineer responsible for SAM's ground support equipment as well as its 'plumbing,' or the series of tiny, winding gas lines that connect SAM's various instruments.

Credits

Chris Smith (HTSI): Video Editor
Jesse Lewis (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Synthia Tonn (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Dan Carrigan (HTSI): Interviewee
Chris Smith (HTSI): Producer
Chris Smith (HTSI): Videographer
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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