Cumberland and Rocknest analogues near-infrared and LIBS measurements compared to MSL

Jérémie Lasue (1) , Erwin Dehouck (2) , Jeffrey R. Johnson (3) , Pierre Beck (4) , Gael David (1) , Caroline Freissinet (5) , Heather V. Graham (6) , Christine A. Knudson (6) , Lisa Krämer Ruggiu (7) , Danika F. Wellington (8) , Jim F. Bell (8) , Kevin M. Cannon (9) , Olivier Forni (1) , Olivier Gasnault (1) , Stéphane Le Mouélic (10) , Nicolas Mangold (10) , Pierre-Yves Meslin (1) , Sylvestre Maurice (1) , Roger C. Wiens (11)

1 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
2 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement
3 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
4 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
5 PLANETO - LATMOS
6 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
7 CEREGE - Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement
8 SESE - ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration
9 UCF - University of Central Florida [Orlando]
10 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112]
11 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Analogues of the Rocknest (RN) windblown deposit (sol 84) and Cumberland (CB) mudstone drill fines (sol 281) have been generated in the laboratory based on the mineralogical information retrieved by MSL. Here, we report initial results of the near-infrared analysis of these analogues compared to the MSL measurements made of the targets on Mars.

Domaines: Planétologie

Jérémie Lasue, Erwin Dehouck, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Pierre Beck, Gael David, et al.. Cumberland and Rocknest analogues near-infrared and LIBS measurements compared to MSL. EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019, Sep 2019, Geneva, Switzerland. pp.EPSC-DPS2019-1852. ⟨hal-02408298⟩