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Housedon-Hill - A ChemCam/RMI mega mosaic to investigate distant features

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1734681· OSTI ID:1734681
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Univ. of Nantes, (France)
  3. Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology, Toulouse (France)
  4. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  5. Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France)
  6. Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
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The ChemCam Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) onboard Curiosity was originally designed to document the tiny areas analyzed by ChemCam’s laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique on rocks at few meters distance around the rover. The RMI produces 1024 x 1024 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, complementing other cameras on the remote sensing mast, and taking advantage of its very long 700 mm focal length. Imaging areas several kilometers from the rover provides pictures that are very complementary to orbital observations and gives a more human-like, ground-based perspective. Between sols 2878 and 2921, Curiosity stayed parked at the same place to perform various rock sampling analyses. This opportunity was used to target very distant areas of interest, daily building an RMI mosaic of 216 overlapping images covering an area ranging from the bottom layers of Mount Sharp to the edge of Vera Rubin Ridge. This product is so far the largest RMI mosaic acquired during the entire mission.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
DOE Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1734681
Report Number(s):
LA-UR--20-29903
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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