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ASU Earth and space exploration professor Philip Christensen is working with UA to launch an exploration of asteroids as part of a possible NASA mission.
Christensen is working to create a thermal emissions spectrometer that will help in the proposed mission by measuring thermal radiation on a specific asteroid.
Dante Lauretta, deputy principal investigator for the project, explained that Christensen's instrument will use thermal radiation to help scientists identify objects on asteroids.
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