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Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 08:31 in Astronomy & Space

The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument in particular has the chemical tools for studying these building blocks of life.

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