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We discuss the current X-ray view of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar, summarisingour analysis of observations of the source with the EPIC-pn camera on board theXMM-Newton observatory. Different modes of EPIC-pn were combined in order toyield a complete scenario of the spectral properties of the Crab resolved inspace and time (pulse phase). In addition we give a description of the specialEPIC-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 keVenergy band. All data were processed with the SAS 6.0.0 XMM-Newton ScientificAnalysis System package; models were fitted to the data with XSPEC 11. The hightime resolution of EPIC-pn in its Burst mode (7 micros) was used for a phaseresolved analysis of the pulsar spectrum, after determination of the periodwith epoch folding techniques. Data from the Small Window mode were processedand corrected for pile-up allowing for spectroscopy simultaneously resolved inspace and time.  The spatial variation of the spectrum over the entire region of the Crabshows a gradual spectral softening from the inner pulsar region to the outernebula region with a variation in photon index, Gamma, from 2.0 to 2.4. Pulsephase resolved spectroscopy of the Crab Pulsar reveals a phase dependentmodulation of the photon index in form of a significant hardening of thespectrum in the inter-peak phase from Gamma =1.7 during the pulse peak to Gamma=1.5.

The XMM-Newton view of the Crab