Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in space applications: Review and prospects

H Saeidfirozeh, P Kubelík, V Laitl, A Křivková… - TrAC Trends in …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review describes the principles and summarizes the challenges of analytical methods
based on optical emission spectroscopy (OES) in space applications, with a particular focus …

Samples collected from the floor of Jezero Crater with the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover

JI Simon, K Hickman‐Lewis, BA Cohen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The first samples collected by the Mars 2020 mission represent units exposed on the Jezero
Crater floor, from the potentially oldest Séítah formation outcrops to the potentially youngest …

Sampling Mars: Geologic context and preliminary characterization of samples collected by the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission

CDK Herd, T Bosak, EM Hausrath… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
The NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission has collected samples of rock, regolith,
and atmosphere within the Noachian-aged Jezero Crater, once the site of a delta-lake …

Fundamental constraints and questions from the study of martian meteorites and the need for returned samples

A Udry, AM Ostwald, JMD Day, LJ Hallis - Proceedings of the National …, 2025 - pnas.org
Physical materials from planetary bodies are crucial for understanding fundamental
processes that constrain the evolution of the solar system, as samples can be analyzed at …

Diverse and highly differentiated lava suite in Jezero crater, Mars: Constraints on intracrustal magmatism revealed by Mars 2020 PIXL

ME Schmidt, TV Kizovski, Y Liu… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
The Jezero crater floor features a suite of related, iron-rich lavas that were examined and
sampled by the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, and whose textures, minerals, and …

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 …

Reflectance of Jezero crater floor: 2. Mineralogical interpretation

L Mandon, C Quantin‐Nataf, C Royer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Perseverance rover landed in the ancient lakebed of Jezero crater, Mars on February
2021. Here, we assess the mineralogy of the rocks, regolith, and dust measured during the …

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 …

Mineralogy, morphology, and emplacement history of the Maaz formation on the Jezero crater floor from orbital and rover observations

B Horgan, A Udry, M Rice, S Alwmark… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The first samples collected by the Perseverance rover on the Mars 2020 mission were from
the Maaz formation, a lava plain that covers most of the floor of Jezero crater. Laboratory …