The SuperCam instrument suite on the NASA Mars 2020 rover: Body unit and combined system tests

RC Wiens, S Maurice, SH Robinson, AE Nelson… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
The SuperCam instrument suite provides the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, with a number
of versatile remote-sensing techniques that can be used at long distance as well as within …

Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars—Implications for organic geochemistry

EL Scheller, J Razzell Hollis, EL Cardarelli, A Steele… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and …

Diverse organic-mineral associations in Jezero crater, Mars

S Sharma, RD Roppel, AE Murphy, LW Beegle… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The presence and distribution of preserved organic matter on the surface of Mars can
provide key information about the Martian carbon cycle and the potential of the planet to host …

Geological diversity and microbiological potential of lakes on Mars

JR Michalski, TA Goudge, SA Crowe, J Cuadros… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hundreds of ancient lake basins detected on Mars via orbital remote sensing represent rare
oases of hydrosphere–atmosphere–lithosphere interactions with great astrobiological …

[HTML][HTML] The mineral diversity of Jezero crater: Evidence for possible lacustrine carbonates on Mars

BHN Horgan, RB Anderson, G Dromart, ES Amador… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Noachian-aged Jezero crater is the only known location on Mars where clear orbital
detections of carbonates are found in close proximity to clear fluvio-lacustrine features …

What Martian meteorites reveal about the interior and surface of Mars

A Udry, GH Howarth, CDK Herd, JMD Day, TJ Lapen… - 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Martian meteorites are the only direct samples from Mars, thus far. Currently, there are a total
of 262 individual samples originating from at least 11 ejection events. Geochemical …

Carbonate detection with SuperCam in igneous rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater, Mars

E Clavé, K Benzerara, PY Meslin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Perseverance explored two geological units on the floor of Jezero Crater over the first 420
Martian days of the Mars2020 mission. These units, the Máaz and Séítah formations, are …

Overview and results from the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover's first science campaign on the Jezero crater floor

VZ Sun, KP Hand, KM Stack, KA Farley… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater on 18 February 2021.
After a 100‐sol period of commissioning and the Ingenuity Helicopter technology …

Petrological traverse of the olivine cumulate Séítah formation at Jezero crater, Mars: A perspective from SuperCam onboard Perseverance

O Beyssac, O Forni, A Cousin, A Udry… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Séítah is the stratigraphically lowest formation visited by Perseverance in the Jezero crater
floor. We present the data obtained by SuperCam: texture by imagery, chemistry by Laser …

Olivine‐carbonate mineralogy of the Jezero crater region

AJ Brown, CE Viviano… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A well‐preserved, ancient delta deposit, in combination with ample exposures of carbonate
outcrops, makes Jezero Crater in Nili Fossae a compelling astrobiological site. We use …