Preparing SuperCam for Jezero Crater, Mars: LIBS, Raman, VISIR, Luminescence, Imaging, and Acoustic Analyses

A. M. Ollila (1) , R. C. Wiens (1) , Sylvestre Maurice (2) , Agnès Cousin (2) , Ryan Anderson (3) , Olivier Beyssac (4) , Lydie Bonal (5) , Pierre Beck (5) , S. Clegg (1) , Baptiste Chide (2) , L. Deflores (6) , Gilles Dromart (7) , W. Fischer (8) , Olivier Forni (2) , Thierry Fouchet (9) , Olivier Gasnault (2) , John P. Grotzinger (8) , J. Johnson (10) , Jérémie Lasue (2) , J. Laserna (11) , Juan Manuel Madariaga (12) , M. Madsen (13) , Nicolas Mangold (14) , T. Nelson (1) , R. Newell (1) , Jesus Martinez-Frias (15) , S. Mclennan (16) , Franck Montmessin (17) , S. Robinson (1) , S. Sharma (18) , A. Misra (18) , F. Rull (19) , D. Venhaus (1) , Pernelle Bernardi (9) , Jean-Michel Reess (9) , A. Reyes-Newell (1) , François Poulet (20)

1 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
2 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
3 USGS - United States Geological Survey
4 IMPMC - Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie
5 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
6 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
7 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement
8 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology
9 LESIA (UMR_8109) - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
10 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
11 Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga]
12 UPV/EHU - University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
13 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
14 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112]
15 CAB - Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid]
16 SBU - Stony Brook University [SUNY]
17 PLANETO - LATMOS
18 University of Hawaii
19 UVa - Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid]
20 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale

SuperCam is a multi-functional instrument on the Mars 2020 rover. It will conduct LIBS, Raman, VISIR, luminescence, imaging, and acoustic analyses of the martian surface. Here, we demonstrate the synergy between these techniques.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]

A. M. Ollila, R. C. Wiens, Sylvestre Maurice, Agnès Cousin, Ryan Anderson, et al.. Preparing SuperCam for Jezero Crater, Mars: LIBS, Raman, VISIR, Luminescence, Imaging, and Acoustic Analyses. Ninth International Conference on Mars, Jul 2019, Pasadena, United States. ⟨insu-02298514⟩