The names of these instruments may sound cryptic, but to GIA researchers they are the tools that help unravel the mysteries of the gems. Scientific Instruments help researchers tell gem stories.

LASP was selected by NASA to build one of the nine science instruments for its flagship mission to Europa. The Surface Dust Analyzer (SUDA) instrument is in development and will analyze icy dust ...

Three science instruments will continue to operate on each spacecraft. The moves are part of an ongoing effort to manage the gradually diminishing power supply of the twin probes. Launched in 1977 ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The mission's science instruments consist of L- and S-band radar, so named to indicate the wavelengths of their signals. ISRO built the S-band radar, which it shipped to ...