The original Athena instrument package...
...from which MERs were derived, included a raman spectrometer. When Athena was modified to be MER, they had to make a lot of cuts to save weight. One of the cuts was the raman.
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...from which MERs were derived, included a raman spectrometer. When Athena was modified to be MER, they had to make a lot of cuts to save weight. One of the cuts was the raman.