The SuperCam remote sensing instrument suite for the Mars 2020 rover mission: A preview

Wiens, Roger Craig; Maurice, Sylvestre; Rull Perez, Fernando

Title: The SuperCam remote sensing instrument suite for the Mars 2020 rover mission: A preview

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We present that the SuperCam remote sensing instrument suite under development for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Mars 2020 rover performs laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), remote Raman spectroscopy, visible and infrared (VISIR) reflectance spectroscopy, acoustic sensing, and high-resolution color imaging. The instrument builds on the successful architecture of the ChemCam instrument, which provides LIBS and panchromatic images on the Curiosity rover, adding remote Raman spectroscopy by frequency doubling the laser and using a gated intensified detector to obtain Raman signals at distances to 12 m. To the visible reflectance spectroscopy used by ChemCam, an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF)-based IR spectrometer is added to cover the 1.3–2.6 µm range that contains important mineral signatures. A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) detector provides color (Bayer filter) images at a pixel resolution of 19 µrad and an optical resolution of 30 µrad. Sounds are recorded via a Knowles Electret microphone, which is the same one that was included but not used on two earlier missions. The acoustic signals of the LIBS plasmas will provide information on the hardness of the targets, while other sounds (wind, rover sounds) will also be recorded. The laser, telescope, IR spectrometer, and camera reside on the rover’smore »« less

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^[1]; Maurice, Sylvestre ^[2]; Rull Perez, Fernando ^[3]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
IRAP, Univ. Paul Sabatier, CNRS, Toulouse (France)
Centro de Astrobiologia, Unidad Associada CSIC-UVA, Cristalografia y Mineralogia Facultad de Ciencias, Valladolid (Spain)

Publication Date:: Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1409785

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-26876
Journal ID: ISSN 0887-6703

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Spectroscopy

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 32; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0887-6703

Publisher:: UBM

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; Planetary Sciences

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  title        = {The SuperCam remote sensing instrument suite for the Mars 2020 rover mission: A preview},

  author       = {Wiens, Roger Craig and Maurice, Sylvestre and Rull Perez, Fernando},

  abstractNote = {We present that the SuperCam remote sensing instrument suite under development for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Mars 2020 rover performs laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), remote Raman spectroscopy, visible and infrared (VISIR) reflectance spectroscopy, acoustic sensing, and high-resolution color imaging. The instrument builds on the successful architecture of the ChemCam instrument, which provides LIBS and panchromatic images on the Curiosity rover, adding remote Raman spectroscopy by frequency doubling the laser and using a gated intensified detector to obtain Raman signals at distances to 12 m. To the visible reflectance spectroscopy used by ChemCam, an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF)-based IR spectrometer is added to cover the 1.3–2.6 µm range that contains important mineral signatures. A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) detector provides color (Bayer filter) images at a pixel resolution of 19 µrad and an optical resolution of 30 µrad. Sounds are recorded via a Knowles Electret microphone, which is the same one that was included but not used on two earlier missions. The acoustic signals of the LIBS plasmas will provide information on the hardness of the targets, while other sounds (wind, rover sounds) will also be recorded. The laser, telescope, IR spectrometer, and camera reside on the rover’s mast and are provided by the Centre national d’etudes spatiales (CNES), while the LIBS, Raman, and VIS spectrometers and data processing unit are built by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and reside in the rover body. A calibration target assembly provided by the University of Valladolid, Spain, resides on the back of the rover. Lastly, the overall mass of the instrument suite is 10.7 kg.},

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  journal      = {Spectroscopy},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 32,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017},

  month        = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017}

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