Developing miniaturized spectrometer-on-a-chip
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 07:31
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) -- The Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) is big. It's powerful and it discovered, among other things, that Saturn's mysterious moon Enceladus was one of the very few worlds in the solar system that radiated several gigawatts of heat into space, primarily along prominent fractures dubbed "tiger stripes."