PIXL sensor head

PIXL’s sensor head before being integrated with the robotic arm at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. In this image, four of the six legs of the sensor head’s “hexapod” are visible. The adjustable legs of the hexapod allow minute adjustments so the sensor head can point its X-ray beam exactly at tiny structures in the rocks on Mars. The part was printed by Carpenter Additive with Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion out of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy.

Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech