The Planetary Emissivity Laboratory (PEL) is a special sub-session of the Planetary Spectroscopy Laboratory (PSL) of the DLR in Berlin, devoted to emissivity measurements in of samples from low/moderate to high temperature (temperature range from 300 to above 1000 Kelvin).
Emissivity measurements are recorded by using an external emissivity chamber (DLR-custom-designed) attached to a Bruker Vertex80V FTIR from the visible to the far-IR (from 0.4 to 150 µm), with a high SNR. Induction system …

The wavelength dispersive X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer S8 Tiger 4 KW (Bruker) enables the detection of major and trace elements in one run. The chemical composition of rocks, minerals, ore and soil samples, and building materials can be measured in the form of powder tablets and glass beads at the lower ppm-level. Our element spectrum ranges from elements with mass 9 (F) to 92 (U).

The X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Lab houses a Bruker S8 Tiger X-Ray fluorescence sequence spectrometer that is used for quantitative analysis of the main and trace elements of bulk rock and mineral samples. Element contents as low as the parts per million (mg/g) range can be obtained by XRF from bulk samples that were previously either finely ground and pressed into a tablet or molten and subsequently cast into a glassy disk. The analyser can be used on-site as well as for sample-based research …