The Mars2020 mission is NASA’s latest flagship mission to Mars. The spacecraft launched in July 2020, and landed in Jezero crater on February 18, 2021 at the Octavia Butler Landing site. The rocks and sediments of Jezero crater have been argued to have preserved records of past, potentially habitable environments. The mission is characterizing the field site by analyzing chemistry, looking for organics and searching for potential biosignatures. The Scanning Habitable Environments with Ra-man and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is a robotic arm mounted instrument. SHERLOC combines imaging with UV resonance Raman and native deep UV fluorescence spectroscopy to identify potential biosignatures and understand the aqueous history of the Jezero Region. WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering), a refight of the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the Curiosity rover is capable of color imaging over a wide range of resolutions (from infinity to 13.1 micron/pixel) and is used for both science and engineering. A second imager, the Autofocusing Con-textual Imager (ACI), produces gray scale images at 10.1 micron/pixel resolution at a 48 mm range.


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    Title :

    The first 300 sols of the SHERLOC investigation on the Mars 2020 rover


    Contributors:
    A. E. Murphy (author) / L. W. Beegle (author) / R. Bhartia (author) / L. Deflores (author) / W. Abbey (author) / J. Razzell Hollis (author) / S. Asher (author) / E. Berger (author) / S. Bykov (author) / A. Burton (author)

    Conference:

    Lunar and Planetary Science ; 2022 ; The Woodlands, TX, US


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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