Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins 2009 Swigert Award for Space Exploration

The Space Foundation has awarded its 2009 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander team "in recognition of the technical developments that led to one of the most startling and meaningful discoveries of the new millennium," the Space Foundation announced today. Nanosurf contributed to the Phoenix Mars Mission with an AFM that recorded high-resolution images of Martian dust. These images allowed researchers to study the history of water on Mars, and represent the highest resolution images ever recorded on another planet.

Phoenix Mars Mission in Time Magazine's Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2008

The Phoenix Mars Mission — where Nanosurf contributed with the first AFM to ever measure on another planet — earned a Second Place in Time Magazine's prestigious Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2008.

Swiss nano-microscope delivers first images recorded on Mars

For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA "Phoenix" Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution using its onboard Swiss-made atomic force microscope, and successfully transmitted these images back to Earth. The first images of the microscope — which was developed by the universities of Neuchâtel and Basel, and by Nanosurf — show the surface of a test grid with unprecedented detail.

Nanosurf opens subsidiary in the US

To react to the increasing global demand for easy-to-use nano-microscopes in science and industry, Nanosurf AG established its own subsidiary in the US, Nanosurf Inc., to match this growing need.

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Nanosurf AFM delivered to Mars by NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft

Nanosurf is prize winner at Swiss Entrepreneurial award

Nanosurf receives an honorable 4th prize at the Entrepreneurial Award ceremony for Northern-Switzerland (Unternehmerpreis Nordschweiz 2007), a prestigious event organized by the Swiss Venture Club.

Swiss Technology Award for Nanosurf Nanite

Nanosurf was awarded the Swiss Technology Award and the exceptional price of the Vontobel Foundation in the category "inventing the future" for the development of the first AFM System using the new Akiyama Probe, which makes AFM handling extremely easy.