  We discuss the current X-ray view of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar, summarising
our analysis of observations of the source with the EPIC-pn camera on board the
XMM-Newton observatory. Different modes of EPIC-pn were combined in order to
yield a complete scenario of the spectral properties of the Crab resolved in
space and time (pulse phase). In addition we give a description of the special
EPIC-pn Burst mode and guidance for data reduction in that mode.
  We analysed spectra for the nebula and pulsar separately in the 0.6-12.0 keV
energy band. All data were processed with the SAS 6.0.0 XMM-Newton Scientific
Analysis System package; models were fitted to the data with XSPEC 11. The high
time resolution of EPIC-pn in its Burst mode (7 micros) was used for a phase
resolved analysis of the pulsar spectrum, after determination of the period
with epoch folding techniques. Data from the Small Window mode were processed
and corrected for pile-up allowing for spectroscopy simultaneously resolved in
space and time.
  The spatial variation of the spectrum over the entire region of the Crab
shows a gradual spectral softening from the inner pulsar region to the outer
nebula region with a variation in photon index, Gamma, from 2.0 to 2.4. Pulse
phase resolved spectroscopy of the Crab Pulsar reveals a phase dependent
modulation of the photon index in form of a significant hardening of the
spectrum in the inter-peak phase from Gamma =1.7 during the pulse peak to Gamma
=1.5.
