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Description	English: Physics of How DAN on Curiosity Checks for Water, Part 2 This diagram and the one at PIA16916 illustrate how the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover detects hydrogen in the ground beneath the rover. Detected hydrogen is interpreted as hydroxyl groups or water molecules, such as those bound into the structure of hydrated minerals. DAN shoots neutrons into the ground and measures the timing and energy levels of neutrons reflected back up. This diagram depicts the case of a neutron that collides with hydrogen atoms before it reaches DAN's detector. Collisions with hydrogen nuclei -- of similar mass to the neutron itself, like two billiard balls -- result in a change in energy level and a change in the time interval between when the neutron is emitted by DAN's neutron generator and when it reaches DAN's detector, compared with neutrons that do not collide with hydrogen, as in the companion diagram.
Date	April 2013
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16917
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/Russian Space Research Institute

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