...of the new result." The escaping vapour was spotted by a team using an instrument called the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD), who used the instrument to analyse light passing through the Martian atmosphere. "This fantastic instrument...
... emission, but this light was UV light, not visible light. Thanks to UVIS, which is part of the Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery (NOMAD) suite of instruments on TGO, that has the capability to detect light in the 200–650 nm spectral range...
...is to sniff out what molecules are present in Mar’s atmosphere. It will do this with two spectrometer suites – NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery) and ACS (Atmospheric Chemistry Suite) – and these instruments have already had their first...