Reflectance of Jezero Crater Floor: 1. Data Processing and Calibration of the Infrared Spectrometer (IRS) on SuperCam

Clément Royer (1) , T. Fouchet (1) , L. Mandon (1) , Franck Montmessin (2) , F. Poulet (3) , O. Forni (4) , J. R. Johnson (5) , C. Legett (5) , S. Le Mouélic (6) , O. Gasnault (4) , C. Quantin-Nataf (7) , Pierre Beck (8) , E. Dehouck (7) , E. Clavé (9) , A. Ollila (10) , C. Pilorget (3) , P. Bernardi (1) , J.‐M. Reess (1) , P. Pilleri (4) , A. Brown (11) , R. Newell (9) , E. Cloutis (12) , S. Maurice (4) , R. Wiens (13)

1 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA
2 PLANETO - LATMOS
3 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
4 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
5 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
6 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112]
7 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement
8 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
9 CELIA - Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications
10 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
11 Plancius Research LLC
12 Department of Geography [Winnipeg]
13 EAPS - Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [West Lafayette]

The Perseverance rover, Mars 2020 mission, landed on the surface of the Jezero Crater, on February, 18th 2021. This Martian crater is suspected to have hosted a paleolake as evidenced by the numerous detections of aqueously-altered phases and thus is a promising candidate for the search for past Martian life. The SuperCam instrument, a collaboration by a consortium of American and European laboratories, plays a leading role in this investigation thanks to its highly versatile payload providing rapid, synergistic, fine-scale mineralogy, chemistry, and color imaging. After its landing, the first measurements of Martian targets with the infrared spectrometer of SuperCam (IRS) showed new instrumental behaviors that had to be characterized and calibrated to derive unbiased science data. The IRS radiometric response has thus been calibrated using periodic observations of the Aluwhite SuperCam Calibration Target (SCCT). Parasitic effects were understood and mitigated, and the instrumental dark and noise are characterized and modeled. The reflectance calibrated data products, provided periodically on the NASA Planetary Data System, are corrected for the main instrumental features. This radiometric calibration allowed us to study the 2.5 μm absorption band which has been discovered in the Séítah unit and is associated with phyllosilicates-carbonates mixtures.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Clément Royer, T. Fouchet, L. Mandon, Franck Montmessin, F. Poulet, et al.. Reflectance of Jezero Crater Floor: 1. Data Processing and Calibration of the Infrared Spectrometer (IRS) on SuperCam. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 2023, 128 (1), pp.e2022JE007481. ⟨10.1029/2022JE007481⟩. ⟨insu-03908854⟩