Lithospace: an automated system for in situ petrographic thin section preparation on Mars

Frédéric Foucher (1) , Nicolas Bost (1) , Sylvain Janiec (2) , Frances Westall (1) , Pascal Perron (3) , Michel Bouquin (3) , Aïcha Fonte (4) , Nicole Le Breton (2, 5) , Michel Tagger (6) , Michel Viso (7) , Pascale Chazalnoel (8) , Frédéric Courtade (8) , Michel Villenave (8)

1 CBM - Centre de biophysique moléculaire
2 ISTO - Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327
3 Lycée Benjamin Franklin
4 PRISME - Laboratoire pluridisciplinaire de recherche en ingénierie des systèmes, mécanique et énergétique
5 Géodynamique - UMR7327
6 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
7 CNES - Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris]
8 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]

The aim of the LithoSpace project, supported by the CNES since 2014, is to work on the development of an automated system permitting preparation of petrographic thin sections on extraterrestrial bodies, in particular, on Mars.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Frédéric Foucher, Nicolas Bost, Sylvain Janiec, Frances Westall, Pascal Perron, et al.. Lithospace: an automated system for in situ petrographic thin section preparation on Mars. European Planetary Science Congress 2018, Sep 2018, Berlin, Germany. ⟨insu-03352850⟩