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Background radiation effects and hazards in planetary instrumentation

Butcher, Gillian; Sims, Mark R.; Fraser, George +3 more

Recent and proposed future planetary missions are becoming increasingly concerned with detailed geochemical assessment, often in a bid to ascertain the presence of water and life supporting geochemical systems. The instruments involved may use some kind of radioactive source, e.g. X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, Mössbauer spectrometry, neutron sc…