HOUSEDON HILL - A CHEMCAM RMI MEGA MOSAIC TO INVESTIGATE DISTANT FEATURES IN GALE CRATER

Stéphane Le Mouélic (1) , Olivier Gasnault (2) , William Rapin (2) , Alexander B Bryk (3) , William E Dietrich (3) , Gilles Dromart (4) , Roger C. Wiens (5) , Gwénaël Caravaca (1) , Nicolas Mangold (1) , Horton Newsom (6) , Erwin Dehouck (4) , P.C. Pinet (2) , K. E. Herkenhoff (7)

1 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112]
2 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
3 EPS - Department of Earth and Planetary Science [UC Berkeley]
4 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement
5 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
6 The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque]
7 USGS - United States Geological Survey

The ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) onboard Curiosity was originally designed to document the tiny areas analyzed by the instrument’s laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) tech-nique on rocks within a few meters around the rover. The RMI produces 1024x1024 pixel black and white images directly from ChemCam’s telescope focal plane. Early in the mission, it was recognized that, thanks to its powerful optics, RMI could also play a role as a long-distance reconnaissance tool, comple-menting other cameras on the remote sensing mast, and taking advantage of its very long focal length.

Mots clés: Gale crater; ChemCam; RMI; Mars; mosaic

Domaines: Stratigraphie; Planète et Univers [physics]; Sciences de la Terre; Planétologie; Optique / photonique

Stéphane Le Mouélic, Olivier Gasnault, William Rapin, Alexander B Bryk, William E Dietrich, et al.. HOUSEDON HILL - A CHEMCAM RMI MEGA MOSAIC TO INVESTIGATE DISTANT FEATURES IN GALE CRATER. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Mar 2021, The Woodlands (virtual ), United States. ⟨hal-03143100⟩