Instruments Aboard the Viking Spacecraft

Instrument                                  USE                             

                                                                           

2 Vidicom Cameras                           Orbital Imagery                 

Infrared spectrometer                       Atmospheric H2O                 

Infrared radiometer                         Thermal mapping                 

Analyzer                                    Ionospheric properties          

Mass spectrometer                           Atmosphere composition          

Barometer, thermometer                      Atmosphere structure            

2 ITEK cameras                              Surface Imagery                 

3 module instrument to detect:              Biological Analyzes             
Metabolism                                                                  
Growth                                                                      
Photosynthesis                                                              

Fluorescence X spectrometer                 Mineralogical analysis          

Pressure and temperature measuring          Meteorological analysis         
instruments, and an anemometer                                              

Seismometer                                 Seismological analysis\