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SAM, seen here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, is equipped to analyze samples of material collected by the rover's arm.
It is also the instrument that NASA is crediting with a potentially big -- but still unrevealed -- discovery.
November 23, 2012 4:00 AM PST
Photo by: NASA
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