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2 Sonoma County scientists help design small payload aimed for the moon – Santa Rosa Press Democrat
The device, the size of a soap bar, would piggyback on a moon rover the size of a Roomba and assess X-rays from the sun.
America plans to put astronauts on the moon by 2024 and two Sonoma County scientists helped design a soap bar-sized instrument that will help keep them safe by deploying it on a reconnaissance mission to the rocky spheroid about 239,000 miles away.
The instrument, weighing less than a pound, would piggyback on a moon rover the size of a Roomba vacuum cleaner that would park about 10 miles from a crater and measure the X-rays in the sunlight during the moons 50-minute sunset over the craters rim…
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