Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA)

Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA)

This text article is about TEGA (Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer) which is being built by a team at the University of Arizona, led by Dr. William Boynton and at the University of Texas, Dallas by Dr. John Hoffman. TEGA is a combination high-temperature furnace and mass spectrometer instrument that scientists will use to analyze martian ice and soil samples.

Topics

  • NASA
  • TEGA
  • thermal
  • evolved gas
  • engineering
  • temperature
  • calorimetry
  • martian
  • soil