Upgrade of Electron Microprobe X-Ray Analysis System

该合同提供了大约三分之一的资金，用于升级安装在新墨西哥大学陨石学研究所的电子显微探针上的x射线分析和计算机自动化系统。升级的剩余费用将由大学和NASA行星材料和地球化学项目的奖励平均分担。升级后的电子探针实验室将对新墨西哥大学的研究人员开放。许多项目都需要增强探测器的微观分析能力，包括分析陨石材料，从阿拉斯加卡特迈和加州长谷的科学钻探项目中返回的钻芯样本，研究巴西的铁地层，以及实验岩石学研究。

This award provides approximately one-third of the funds required to upgrade the X-ray analysis and computer automation systems attached to the electron microprobe installed at the Institute for Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico. The remaining costs of the upgrade will be equally shared by the University and an award from NASA's program for Planetary Materials and Geochemistry. The upgraded electron microprobe laboratory will be open to researchers at the University of New Mexico. The enhanced microanalytical capabilities of the probe are needed for a variety of projects including the analysis of meteorite materials, drill core samples returned from the Katmai, Alaska and Long Valley, California scientific drilling projects, studies of iron formations in Brazil, and research in experimental petrology.