The AMS is a particledetector that will use radiation from space to help ascertain conditions at the beginning of the universe as well as providing more data about its composition.
The cosmic ray particle physics detector was carried to the International Space Station on the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour and installed under NASA direction.
Although the probe would carry no cameras in the classic sense, its onboard instruments would include a low-energy charged particle experiment, a magnetometer, a cosmic ray detector, and an energetic neutral atom detector.
Such a particle, if produced in his apparatus, would cruise through a detector made of barium-phosphate glass and leave a trail of damage along the way.
That Tron-ish, equalizer-like graphic is actually a 3D representation of particle activity left behind by cosmic rays interacting within NOvA, the Department of Energy's under construction neutrino detector.