Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) aboard the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission

RA Masterson, M Chodas, L Bayley, B Allen… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) is the student collaboration
experiment proposed and built by an MIT-Harvard team, launched aboard NASA's OSIRIS …

Miniature lightweight X-ray optics (MiXO) for surface elemental composition mapping of asteroids and comets

J Hong, S Romaine, MiXO team - Earth, Planets and Space, 2016 - Springer
The compositions of diverse planetary bodies are of fundamental interest to planetary
science, providing clues to the formation and evolutionary history of the target bodies and …

Engineering design of the Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument: an OSIRIS-REx student collaboration

M Jones, M Chodas, MJ Smith… - Space Telescopes and …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
OSIRIS-REx is a NASA New Frontiers mission scheduled for launch in 2016 that will travel to
the asteroid Bennu and return a pristine sample of the asteroid to Earth. The REgolith X-ray …

The formation and evolution of planetary systems

NK Inamdar - 2016 - dspace.mit.edu
The Kepler space observatory and other surveys have revealed thousands of planets and
planetary systems that look significantly different from our own. In particular, the …