Toaster oven-sized boffin box bound for Mars to search for life
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/toaster_sized_boffin_box_bound_for_mars_to_search_for_life/
A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gathered last week to bid farewell to a mass spectrometer as it began its journey to the red planet via an assembly plant in Italy.
The instrument is a key component of a toaster oven-sized lab, called the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA), which will detect evidence of complex organic compounds in samples retrieved from deep below the surface of Mars.