Preliminary Evaluation of the Mars 2020 Rover's SuperCam Development Unit: Co-Aligned Chemical and Mineralogical Analyses

Ann M. Ollila (1) , Roger C. Wiens (1) , René Perez (2) , Andrew Nelson (1) , M. Bodine (1) , Sylvestre Maurice (3) , Shiv Sharma (4) , P. Gasda (1) , Jean-Michel Reess (5) , T. Fouchet (5) , Edward Cloutis (6) , Jeffrey R. Johnson (7) , S. Bender (8) , Franck Montmessin (9) , Pernelle Bernardi (5) , J. Frydenvang (10, 1) , K. Mccabe (1) , Ph. Cais (11)

1 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
2 CNES - Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris]
3 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
4 UH - University of Hawai'i [Honolulu]
5 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
6 Department of Geography [Winnipeg]
7 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
8 PSI - Planetary Science Institute [Tucson]
9 PLANETO - LATMOS
10 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
11 FORMATION STELLAIRE 2017

Scheduled to be launched in July/August 2020, the next Mars rover will continue the geological and astrobiological exploration of the martian surface. One of the selected instrument suites on its science payload is called SuperCam. SuperCam will have five science techniques that it will deploy remotely to study the chemistry, mineralogy, and small scale morphology of Mars. These techniques include laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for chemistry, Raman/time resolved fluorescence (TRF) and visible-near infrared (VISIR) spectroscopy for mineralogy, a microphone to support the LIBS analyses, and a color remote micro imager (RMI) for context imagery and textural analyses [1].

Domaines: Astrophysique galactique [astro-ph.GA]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]

Ann M. Ollila, Roger C. Wiens, René Perez, Andrew Nelson, M. Bodine, et al.. Preliminary Evaluation of the Mars 2020 Rover's SuperCam Development Unit: Co-Aligned Chemical and Mineralogical Analyses. 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Mar 2017, The Woodlands, United States. pp.id.2339. ⟨hal-01489011⟩