What does TES stand for?

Thermal Emission Spectrometer

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To assist them, each rover has housed in its body a miniature thermal emission spectrometer that can detect the unique thermal profiles produced by different types of rocks and soil, allowing them to determine mineral components from a distance.

Probing the secrets of Mars

This has to be incredibly fine powder formed from impacts over millions of years, and it looks like the whole surface is made up of fine dust," said Philip Christensen of Arizona State University, the principal investigator for the thermal emission spectrometer, which uses light to detect surface composition.

SMALL MARS MOON COVERED IN HIP-DEEP DUST

A thermal emission spectrometer measures how much heat Martian rocks emit.

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