eXaminart is the engineering company designing and building the XRD/F and XCT instruments on the METRIC payload, a proposed mission to the lunar south pole-Aitken Basin
eXaminart was awarded a 2022 NASA SBIR Phase II grant to develop a next-generation planetary crystallographic instrument for definitive mineralogical analysis. This new development will result in an in-situ X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Fluorescence(XRD/XRF) instrument suitable for a broad range of planetary surface explorations including smaller rovers and lander.
We are funded by NASA to demonstrate a micro-CT (computed tomography) instrument for analysis of samples on the surface of Mars or other planetary bodies. PIXI (Planetary In-situ X-ray Imager) is a microCT instrument concept intended for deployment to Mars, cometary nuclei, or other planets/planetesimals.
In collaboration with NASA and CNRS, we have developed a portable MA-XRF instrument based on an innovative concept: the instrument uses a CCD camera coupled to an imaging X-ray optic to produce chemical maps of an object.