The SuperCam Instrument for the Mars2020 Rover

Sylvestre Maurice (1) , Roger C. Wiens (2) , Stéphane Le Mouélic (3) , Ryan Anderson (4) , O. Beyssac (5) , Lydie Bonal (6) , S. Clegg (7) , Lauren Deflores (8) , Gilles Dromart (9) , Woodward Fischer (10) , Olivier Forni (1) , Olivier Gasnault (1) , John Grotzinger (10) , J. Johnson (11) , Jesus Martinez-Frias (12) , Nicolas Mangold (3) , S. Mclennan (13) , Franck Montmessin (14) , F. Rull (15) , S. Sharma (16)

1 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
2 ISR-2 - Space Remote Sensing Group
3 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112]
4 USGS - United States Geological Survey [Reston]
5 IMPMC - Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie
6 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
7 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
8 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
9 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement
10 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena]
11 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
12 CAB - Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid]
13 SBU - Stony Brook University [SUNY]
14 PLANETO - LATMOS
15 Unidad Asociada UVa-CSIC-Centro de Astrobiología
16 HIGP - Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology

Micro-scale characterization of the mineralogy and elemental chemistry of the Martian surface, along with the search for organic materials, are fundamental investigations that lay the groundwork for all types of Mars geochemistry and astrobiology investigations. SuperCam, being developed for the Mars 2020 rover, is a suite of four co-aligned instruments that remotely provide these critical observations via Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Raman spectroscopy, time- resolved fluorescence (TRF), visible and near- infrared spectroscopy (VISIR), and high resolution color remote micro-imaging (RMI)

Domains: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR]

Sylvestre Maurice, Roger C. Wiens, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Ryan Anderson, O. Beyssac, et al.. The SuperCam Instrument for the Mars2020 Rover. European Planetary Science Congress 2015, Sep 2015, Nantes, France. pp.EPSC2015-185. ⟨insu-01220146⟩